provoker

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Noun
  • Aiding the princess is a band of rebels led by the dashing Jonathan (Tony winner Andrew Burnap).
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Ooh, rendezvous with the hot rebel in the forest! 50.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Zack as the troublemaker and Cody as the rules-follower made for a great comedic foil, and the combination made stars out of Dylan and Cole Sprouse.
    Skyler Trepel, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Farthing will play Edward Smith, a troublemaker and long-time friend of Henry’s.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Warfare plots, in real time, a surveillance mission in Ramadi gone awry when nearby Al Qaeda insurgents detonate a series of IEDs outside a housing building which the team has taken over.
    Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The sniper gun is peering through an eight-inch-wide hole blasted into the wall, and the insurgents, having figured out that the Americans are in there, toss a grenade through the hole.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Flea, Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench The concert was the latest in this format presented by veteran promoter and Knitting Factory founder Michael Dorf, who has staged 20 of them since 2006’s inaugural Joni Mitchell tribute.
    Caryn Rose, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Jackson, 58, said in a statement shared by promoters.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.
    Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
  • As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.
    Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
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“Provoker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provoker. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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