protester

noun

variants or protestor
Definition of protesternext
as in demonstrator

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for protester
  1. demonstrator
  2. marcher
  3. agitator
  4. firebrand
  5. provocateur
  6. demagogue
  7. promoter
Noun
  • Some 700 miles to the north, the shouts of protesters and pops from their fireworks can be heard in the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia, where demonstrators continue their weeks-long call for an end to the pro-Russian ruling party in parliament and entry into the European Union.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Outside the courthouse, small groups of pro- and anti-Netanyahu demonstrators are chanting from opposite sides of a police barrier.
    NBC News, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of demonstrator
Noun
  • Responding to these allegations, the chief minister of the Punjab region, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, said police deployed to stop the protesters were unarmed, and in turn accused the marchers of wielding shotguns, knives and teargas shells.
    Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The all white outfits were an homage to previous protests against anti-Black violence such as the 1917 NAACP Silent parade, and Saturday’s marchers also wore purple, pink, and white flower crowns as a callback to transgender-rights advocate Marsha P. Johnson.
    Solcyré Burga / Washington, TIME, 14 Sep. 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
  • Vincent, with her beautifully aged face, is quietly mesmerizing; Ludivine Sagnier, as her hostile daughter, an absolute firebrand.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Crockett, a Democratic firebrand, also argued that Democrats should consider new approaches to leadership, noting House Republicans have term limits with their leadership positions.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of firebrand
Noun
  • But an array of far-right provocateurs, from Andrew Tate to Tommy Robinson (the latter the founder of the now-defunct English Defence League), started blaming undocumented immigrants or linking the attacks to Islam.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Although he’s always been a divisive figure, the author is now seen less as a provocateur and more as an out-of-touch misogynist.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 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
  • On top of being a major promoter of online sports betting, Portnoy, 47, is considered to be one of the pizza world’s biggest influencers.
    Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 26 Dec. 2024
  • While the judges clearly scored the Usyk vs. Fury 2 fight for the Ukrainian competitor, Frank Warren, the head of Queensberry Promotions, and Fury’s promoter, thought the fight should have gone the other way.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of promoter
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