fomenter
Example Sentences
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“Out” was the factory as the crucible of revolution; “in” was the university as fomenter of upheaval.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
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
The ministry, as he was directly informed, thought no better of him than did the editors, regarding him as "the great fomenter of the opposition in America," the "great adversary to any accommodation."
From Benjamin Franklin by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
