How to Use propagandist in a Sentence

propagandist

noun
  • The Party propagandist in Sabit’s cell had been fired from her job.
    David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Its priests are the censors, the propagandists, the secret police.
    Brooke Singman, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The Nazi propagandist was on his feet in the front row of the balcony at Berlin’s ornate Mozartsaal, frothing at the motion picture screen.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Vietnam was a propagandist’s bonanza for critics of the United States and the West.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The group’s propagandists hid the identity of the fighters by blurring out their faces and, in most scenes, distorting their voices.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The confrontation between Putin and Prigozhin is also a clash of propagandists.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
  • One Communist Party propagandist said Australia needed to be put in its place — like scraping the gum off the bottom of a shoe.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Russian state propagandists claimed the restaurant had been a base for foreign soldiers.
    Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Mike Adams, who goes by the nom de guerre Health Ranger, can politely be described as an antiscience propagandist.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2010
  • Legendary suffragettes went to trial there, as did a Nazi propagandist.
    Nina Ruggiero, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2021
  • This Stasi-worthy logrolling is how the media propagandize for the propagandist.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2023
  • That certainly isn't the case with the ongoing war in Ukraine, as even pro-Kremlin propagandists have been vocal in criticizing the handling of the conflict.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Truly, being a propagandist is knowing which metaphor to evoke, how to judge a public sentiment, or which font to use in a headline in order to make something happen: a sale, a vote, a like.
    Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Nouran is a rising star in TV news who becomes a full-on state propagandist while accumulating wealth and power.
    Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • But no one besides pure and unalloyed propagandists wants journalists to be more closed-minded or less willing to listen and learn.
    Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Since the rebellion, Kremlin propagandists have portrayed Putin as a wise leader who averted a civil war.
    Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • Again, this already happens, but AI is giving propagandists some sharp tools, widening the pool of potential victims.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • How could Twitter silence Trump but allow a North Korean propagandist to keep an account?
    Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Both schemes are supposed to demonstrate that TikTok is protecting Western data and minds from China’s spies and propagandists.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Hu Xijin, a top party propagandist, senses dangers in all the demands for an apology.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Was this teacher an unknowing servant of the patriarchy, as Kara Cooney would argue, or a naïve propagandist of the oil industry, as Riggs herself comes to believe?
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But McCraney is a poet, not a moralistic ideologue or a political propagandist happy to play to the choir.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022
  • The growth of these sites has allowed far-right personalities and propagandists to thrive despite being banned from most of the major tech platforms, SPLC researchers concluded.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • Today, the message being spread by Russian propagandists is that any superpower has the right to violence.
    Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2023
  • On Tuesday, the right-wing news network officially announced that Trump’s chief propagandist will join its ranks as an on-air commentator.
    Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Liberals called him a bigot, a sexist and a partisan propagandist with a profoundly mean streak.
    Mary McNamara, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Tehran’s propagandists have long emphasized panache for music videos about missiles, and the unveiling of Fattah was no exception.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
  • After Cheney on Thursday called out Carlson for promoting 1/6 trutherism, the Fox propagandist invited her on his show.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Fulminating on state television, one of Russia’s most prominent propagandists, Vladimir Solovyov, demanded to know how Lockshin had been allowed to make the movie.
    Paul Sonne, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Russian and Chinese propagandists are amplifying these messages to drive a wedge between Washington and the developing world.
    Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024

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