fomenter
Example Sentences
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He wasn’t just a sharply critical, sharp-elbowed political-social commentator; he was, for four decades, an acid-tonged, angry fomenter whose attacks and diatribes often veered into the ugly and worse.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2021
Another explanation might be that famed fomenter of teen fads, TikTok.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2020
An early fomenter of Bloody Mary zaniness was Dave Sobelman, proprietor of several namesake establishments around Milwaukee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2018
Though she herself was never actually connected with bombs & bloodshed, Emma Goldman's burgeoning reputation as a fomenter of trouble led the police into many an attempt to pin something on her.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the second Act Caiaphas speaks of Jesus as the fomenter of a "thousand conflicts between Church and State."
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
