agitator

Example Sentences

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"I'm a survivor so this small agitator isn't going to intimidate me from doing my work," she wrote.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 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

Within hours, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officials released a familiar statement: an agent, they said, had acted in lawful self-defense against an armed and violent agitator.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

Passion is the great agitator of social norms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Then my father smiled and winked at the crowd as if it were a huge joke that the agitator should be calling my father names while my father was right there behind him.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz