fomenter

noun

Definition of fomenternext
as in rebel
a person who stirs up public feelings especially of discontent sent the fomenters of the rebellion to prison

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fomenter
  1. rebel
  2. agitator
  3. insurgent
  4. promoter
  5. supporter
  6. proponent
  7. demagogue
  8. apostle
Noun
  • The rebels have threatened new attacks in response to Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon and its killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The Israel-Hamas war has intensified other conflicts in the Middle East, including attacks on international shipping lanes by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of rebel
Noun
  • Make sure they're evenly spaced around the center agitator.
    Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2024
  • For three decades, Nitschke has been an agitator in the right-to-die debate.
    Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of agitator
Noun
  • Operating in loose cooperation with Lebanese insurgents, these militias wreaked havoc on Israeli forces and their collaborators.
    Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024
  • His ascension was part of a wave of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates who sought to push the Republican Party further to the right.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of insurgent
Noun
  • As president, Trump leaned even further into his role as a promoter of his own businesses.
    Zach Everson, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Kennedy has been a leading promoter of false theories about vaccines being linked to autism.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of promoter
Noun
  • Photo: David Dee Delgado/AFP/Getty Images Members and supporters of the New York Immigration Coalition at an Election Night watch party at their offices in New York City.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Nearly six in 10 Trump supporters think the country's best days are behind it.
    Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of supporter
Noun
  • If former President Donald Trump is elected president, the nation's loudest anti-vaccine proponent could conceivably be in a position to drastically transform U.S. health policy.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The text of the constitutional amendment written by Issue 1 proponents would be added to the state Constitution.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of proponent
Noun
  • As a result, the very outcome the founders most feared, namely election of a demagogue by a gullible cult of true-believers, has been made possible because of the Electoral College, which was originally designed to avoid precisely that outcome.
    Joseph J. Ellis, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s new book On Freedom explains how institutions of government can protect human rights while his 2017 book On Tyranny explains how demagogues succeed in eroding those pillars of society to be replaced by a tyrant.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of demagogue
Noun
  • The chapel was meant to house relics of the martyrs and apostles, Rossi said.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The story goes that 13 guests attended the Last Supper—Jesus Christ and his 12 apostles—and the next day, Good Friday, was the day of Jesus’ crucifixion.
    Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 13 Sep. 2024
Definition of apostle
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