objector

noun

Definition of objectornext
1
as in protestor

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2
as in quibbler

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  1. proponent
  2. demonstrator
  3. pessimist
  4. hypochondriac
  5. kicker
Noun
  • Lately, proponents of the cull have pointed to a 2023 study by researchers from the Animal and Plant Health Agency, which seemed to show a reduction in bovine tuberculosis.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Hours before this year’s legislative session formally began, proponents of school vouchers had already embarked on their push for what is likely to be one of the most contested topics in Idaho over the coming months.
    Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of proponent
Noun
  • Advertisement An hour after the protest began, police escorted some demonstrators out of the office space.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Numbers are expected to be substantially lower than in January 2017, when hundreds of thousands of demonstrators attended a 'Women's March' in major U.S. cities on the day after Trump's first inauguration.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of demonstrator
Noun
  • Yes, but: AGI is also not well-defined, and both optimists and pessimists have complained that it's become a moving goalpost.
    Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Optimists and pessimists Are scientists merely speculating?
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of pessimist
Noun
  • To position Cohn in bed next to Trump, a notorious hypochondriac, highlights their strained relationship as Trump rose and Cohn fell in New York high society.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
  • They are widely seen as overly anxious hypochondriacs.
    Evan Malmgren, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2024
Definition of hypochondriac
Noun
  • All five of these kickers had careers over a decade, thus earning the trust to take these risky attempts.
    Tyler Small, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • That was the first of three game-winning field goals on the final play of games for the Chiefs — each by a different kicker.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of kicker
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objector

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