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
  • Thousands of police officers had gathered Friday at the president’s residence, forming a perimeter around the pro-Yoon demonstrators who waved South Korean and American flags and chanted slogans.
    Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • What was supposed to be a protest in which thousands marched from campus to tear down a fence the university had erected to keep out trespassers turned into a heated battle between demonstrators and hundreds of officers, ending with many injured and one dead.
    Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of demonstrator
Noun
  • Both cities' morning temperatures will be in the low to mid-40s, so marchers and spectators will face a chilly rain.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The march attracted a large crowd of counter-protesters, some dressed as clowns to mock the mostly Catholic marchers.
    Mike Deehan, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of marcher
Noun
  • Now everyone, including the most radical agitators, is a publisher.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Sign up March The veteran left-wing agitator George Galloway returns to Westminster for a three-month stint after winning a decisive victory in the Rochdale by-election.
    The Week UK, theweek, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of agitator
Noun
  • The Freedom Party, known as the FPÖ, and its firebrand leader, Herbert Kickl, were given the chance to form a governing coalition this week, after efforts to bar them from power collapsed.
    Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The president-elect has chosen former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi as his nominee to head the Justice Department and firebrand loyalist Kash Patel to head the FBI.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of firebrand
Noun
  • But the choices of Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and Trump surrogate, to run the Justice Department and Kash Patel, a former Trump aide and far-right provocateur, to be director of the F.B.I. have put the issue front and center.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Steve Bannon Steve Bannon, a right-wing provocateur and Trump’s former chief strategist, was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress after refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
    Ella Lee, The Hill, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of provocateur
Noun
  • So when a demagogue like Trump speaks to her pain and promises to bring factories back, of course her heart leaps.
    Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • 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
Definition of demagogue
Noun
  • Fury’s legendary promoter, Frank Warren, seemed to take the announcement in stride.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • This was just the latest in a series of moves—including elevating former Republican operative Joel Kaplan to chief global affairs officer and adding combat-sports promoter Dana White to Meta’s board—that seem to indicate the company is vying to get into the good graces of the new administration.
    Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of promoter
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