provoker

Example Sentences

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Pundit and eager discourse provoker Matt Yglesias has made a mission of reporting bogus paper tags in D.C., which is plagued by bad drivers from neighboring Maryland and Virginia.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2023

For his part, Mr Wilcox, the simian provoker and professor, thinks the movement is related to the decline of the traditional family unit.

From Economist • Jun. 16, 2016

Robin – as in Hood – is a college dropout and provoker of accidents.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2013

It was not, Federal Judge Robert Merhige insisted, a penalty so much as an expensive thought provoker.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Thomas Allen, of do., hath given 12 rare MSS., with a purpose to do more, and hath been ever a most careful provoker and solicitor of sundry great persons to become benefactors.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall