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

"Sometime acrobat, magician, horse thief, highwayman, circus-man, poet, sculptor, fomenter of disturbances in the Far East and superb Baron Munchausen."

From Time Magazine Archive

He was no fomenter of faction, but studious of the public tranquillity.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh