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
  • The demonstrators agitated for the cancelation of the match because of Israel's conduct in the war in Gaza.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
  • In the streets near Paris’ Saint Lazare station, dozens of demonstrators had gathered waving Palestinian flags and lighting flares.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of demonstrator
Noun
  • Protests followed the 2016 election in Oakland, with thousands of marchers taking to the streets.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Puerto Rican Day Parade brings about 1,500 marchers to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Sunday, noon-6pm.
    Mike D'Onofrio, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of marcher
Noun
  • Spanish media reported earlier in the week anti-Israel agitators would protest outside the stadium where the match was being played, targeting the club and its fans.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • This year, agitators circulated maps with the locations of migrant housing, which have become targets.
    Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2024
Definition of agitator
Noun
  • Crockett is going into her second term and has become known as an MSNBC mainstay and fierce partisan brawler with GOP firebrands.
    Andrew Solender, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
  • This time, Cruz appealed to his party to take his race seriously and reshaped his image to Texas voters, presenting himself as a pragmatic legislator focused on getting things done—an effort to pivot from his past reputation as an uncompromising firebrand with aspirations beyond Texas.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of firebrand
Noun
  • That’s exactly what Maurizio Cattelan, the artist and provocateur behind Comedian, intended.
    Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Maybe Lanthimos is just in step with his moment — a madman provocateur for an increasingly mad world.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 21 June 2024
Definition of provocateur
Noun
  • 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
  • Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s new book On Freedom explains how institutions of government can protect human rights while his 2017 book On Tyranny explains how demagogues succeed in eroding those pillars of society to be replaced by a tyrant.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of demagogue
Noun
  • Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Green Day and Post Malone will headline the 2025 Coachella festival, promoters confirmed Wednesday in a complete lineup reveal.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The five-v-five concept in boxing between the top promoters in the world is fun.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of promoter
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