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agitator

[aj-i-tey-ter] / ˈædʒ ɪˌteɪ tər /


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The DHS officials have said that demonstrators were repeatedly warned to leave federal property, and they have described Black as an agitator.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

In a statement on X, Omar said: "I'm ok. I'm a survivor so this small agitator isn't going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don't let bullies win."

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

Notorious far-right agitator Tommy Robinson and misogynist influencer Andrew Tate, who faces court cases in Britain and Romania, hail from the town, where about a third of residents are Muslim.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet writer and propagandist who was considered in Germany to be an inflammatory agitator, emerges in a more nuanced light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

His instincts of an agitator remained dormant as long as Don Apolinar Moscote was a figurehead.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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