protest
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So does a device that repeatedly travels to a church, a mosque, a union office, a bar at 1 a.m., a political protest, an addiction treatment center, or someone else’s apartment late at night.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
But the people showing up at county council meetings to protest the construction of a data center didn’t for the most part come by their convictions the old-fashioned way, by reading and thought.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
"We come out to protest, we care, we are not Russia, and we fight," she said.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the right to protest was "a cornerstone of our democracy".
From BBC • May 16, 2026
According to Mrs. Clarke, the encounter could only be described as toreadorical: the outright threats and faked retreats, the defiant swirl of Lady Constance’s red skirts, the snorting, stamping protest of Lord Fredrick.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing protest
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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