provocateur
Example Sentences
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In concert, she’s powerful, hardly a princess of perfection but gorgeously garish, a fun and funny powerhouse provocateur, dripping in costumes, onstage audience members and sweat.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
In the early days of Monday Night Football, Howard Cosell, the original sports media provocateur, often griped about former NFL players leaving the field and walking into the booth.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025
Reckzeh had been set up as a spy and agent provocateur by the Gestapo: Thadden had been fooled by his elaborately constructed cover story.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
Fuentes famously spent years harassing Kirk and his Turning Point staff at similar college campus events before Kirk banned the provocateur.
From Salon • Oct. 29, 2025
With him, the composer as agent provocateur had arrived.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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