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agitator
noun as in person who stirs up others for a cause
Example Sentences
Concrete trucks routinely queued up on nearby streets before departing right on La Brea Avenue with their agitator drums turning.
Instead, he has thrown in his lot with fanatical anti-vaccine agitators such as Robert F. Kennedy.
He suggested that "civil war is inevitable" and promoted a conspiracy theory that far-right agitators were treated more harshly than minority groups.
Police say some known far-right agitators appeared on the fringes of events, lurking and observing activity, but then just melted away.
Large groups of agitators clashed with police in Southport on 30 July, while violence also broke out in Liverpool city centre and in Walton on Saturday and Sunday.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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