How to Use activist in a Sentence

activist

1 of 2 noun

• Jack Butler Pro-life activists in the Buckeye State look to buck a bad trend.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
• But activists have balked at the idea that flag waving could lead to arrests.
  — Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• Richie recalls of the legendary performer and activist who died last year at age 96.
  — Mikael Wood, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2024
• At least 22 activists were kidnapped that year, and 13 are still missing.
  — Niniek Karmini and Edna Tariganthe Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• Party activists want to work for the party, not just raise money.
  — TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
• Teran set up their tent here with dozens of other activists.
  — Hilary Beaumont, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• But users and activists who had come to rely on that flag suddenly found themselves in the dark last month.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2023
• The activists also have failed to get other world leaders to back their demands for change.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• One of those agents revealed in a sting that the lethal nerve agent Novichok had been planted in the activist’s underpants.
  — Laura Smith-Spark, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
• Ellsberg spent much of the rest of his life as prominent anti-war activist.
  — Conor Murray, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• From the grass-roots activists to the multi-state operators (MSOs), most of us who have been here for a while aren’t focused on the money.
  — Matt Hutchinson, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
• This is the result of a campaign led by Arab-American activists to use the ballot box to pressure Biden to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2024
• Seven of the activists have been accused of assaulting the motorist.
  — Stephanie Mendez, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023
• One way to learn about the neighborhood that inspired artists and writers, activists and poets, is by walking among the streets now named for many of them.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2024
• The Star was looking for Black, local grassroots activists and had gotten a tip that Stacer and Heartland would fit that bill.
  — Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2024
• And that’s fine; activists should always agitate for more.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
• Thirty-six of his friends — writers, scholars, activists and lawyers — had been detained or sentenced to prison.
  — Han Zhang, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Howard Ray, a community activist, has lived in Austin for almost three decades.
  — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
• Climate change is being put at the forefront thanks to a group of dedicated young activists.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• Of course, the Democratic activist pretending to be a judge is chomping at the bit to lock up Donald Trump, with or without a guilty verdict.
  — Fox News, 8 May 2024
• He and his third wife, activist Alejandra Silva, have been married since 2018.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2024
• That one was waved by a member of Nikkei Progressives, an activist group whose membership trends older.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• To many observers, that sounds uncomfortably close to the kind of threat that the Klan used to issue to civil rights activists, and that modern-day racists continue to spout today.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
• One activist cited by the outlet said the illicit operation can sell a pound of cat meat for around $4 by passing them off as mutton and pork.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• Since then, the nation has seen an uptick in legal challenges from conservative activists.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Turns out Dublin’s number one son, social activist and rock god philanthropist also had a fear of meeting people.
  — Henry Everingham, Spin, 7 Sep. 2023
• Palestinian activist and blogger Akil Awawdeh said the group abuses its power in the West Bank and punishes anyone who dares speak out against it.
  — Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
• For the rest of his life, Mr. Bennett was a quiet political activist and advocate for civil rights.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• For some activists, the answer is to make universities more, well, corporate.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• By antifa, Stutts was referring to the far-left, anti-facist activists whom Donald Trump blamed for the protests against racial injustice across America in 2020.
  — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 23 Jan. 2024

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activist

2 of 2 adjective

• Our only hope against this evil is the activist outrage of these parents groups and, of course, the grace of almighty God.
  — For The Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2024
• That doesn’t leave a lot of room for taking advice from activist groups.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 6 May 2024
• Maybe that’s because the activist firm is loading up on shares, pushing up the price.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• Also, all the while, he's remained one of the greatest activist voices of our time.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
• There are activist students who stand up for a cease-fire and push the district to teach them more about Palestine.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 7 May 2024
• One of the activist groups, Safe Street Rebel, has even found a way to make the cars shut down by simply placing a traffic cone on their hood.
  — Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• About $10 million in student loans were canceled on Monday—all thanks to the work of an activist group.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
• Younger and more activist progressive Democrats seem less inclined to give Mr. Biden the benefit of the doubt.
  — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• The Journal reported that an activist investor has built a stake in the company and plans to push for changes.
  — WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
• Among those present was a spokesman for the activist group Palestine Speaks, who asked not to be identified over concerns about hate mail.
  — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• Disney will have to deal with a new proxy fight, as activist investor Nelson Peltz will seek board seats at the company.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2023
• Dawson hopes that Rio Dawn can attract supporters who may not have found their space thus far in the activist movement.
  — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2023
• Are there artists or people within the industry now who share the activist instinct of your heyday?
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 June 2023
• The share price tanked, activist investors threw him out, and Danone had no option but to go back to its previous business model.
  — WIRED, 30 June 2023
• Daniel says their mom had to push Teran to finish school because they were distracted by their activist groups.
  — Hilary Beaumont, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• Yet the left lacks the support structures for activist students that the right has engineered over several decades.
  — Claire Potter, The New Republic, 28 June 2023
• At the same time, activist investors are attempting a buyout of Macy’s.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Solidaire now distributes tens of millions of dollars a year to activist groups.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Now the activist investor is faced with the ultimate fixer upper.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 13 June 2023
• Salesforce’s stock is down 17% since the deal closed, and activist investors have pressured the company to be more efficient.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 1 June 2023
• Of that, half of those proposals that have been submitted, roughly half of those have been submitted by just three activist groups.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• French police made use of drones to film the chaos, sparking concern among privacy defenders and activist groups.
  — Haley Chi-Sing, Fox News, 1 May 2023
• The rally was organized by activist groups who want to legalize the outpost at Evyatar.
  — Celine Alkhaldi, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
• When all is said and done, perhaps Benioff should offer lessons on value creation to activist investors.
  — Steven Tian, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
• Also on hand is Kyra Jones, an activist filmmaker who provides hints of what restorative justice might look like.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• There’s the famed activist investor Carl Icahn, who, at age 87, still runs his Icahn Enterprises.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Delisting would allow Toshiba to leave behind the activist investors.
  — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 24 Mar. 2023
• She was also deeply engaged in activist politics throughout the ’60s.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
• Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg News Hanesbrands has drawn an activist investor who is pushing the underwear company to make changes to its board and other moves to reverse a slide in its stock.
  — Lauren Thomas, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2023
• Kohl’s is under pressure from activist shareholders to turn around its business.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024