protester

noun

variants or protestor
Definition of protesternext
as in demonstrator

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  1. demonstrator
  2. marcher
  3. agitator
  4. firebrand
  5. provocateur
  6. demagogue
  7. promoter
Noun
  • During the first rally, demonstrators repeatedly interrupted his speech, stomped on police patrol cars outside and shattered windows with rocks, causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage.
    Russell Contreras, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The Hungarian leader's remarks came while protests erupted outside Georgia's Parliament on Monday night, with demonstrators demanding a new vote supervised by international observers.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of demonstrator
Noun
  • Protests followed the 2016 election in Oakland, with thousands of marchers taking to the streets.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Puerto Rican Day Parade brings about 1,500 marchers to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Sunday, noon-6pm.
    Mike D'Onofrio, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of marcher
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
  • Underscoring the state's competitiveness, firebrand GOP Sen. Ron Johnson was reelected in 2022 by about 26,000 votes, while in 2023, liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz won a seat on the state Supreme Court over conservative judge Dan Kelly by a whopping 11 points.
    ABC NEWS, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The other side: Boebert remains a firebrand conservative and she's aligned herself closely with former President Trump.
    John Frank, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of firebrand
Noun
  • My sense is that people infatuated with this tinpot Marxist analysis enjoy the rush of feeling like the naughty provocateur without paying any real price for transgression.
    Lily Burana, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Turning Point Action, founded by conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk, has held GOP vote-chasing events with at least 22 churches in six swing states since March, according to research conducted by the progressive watchdog group Documented and verified by NBC News.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of provocateur
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
  • 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
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