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Members from education unions, including the Cambridge Education Association, shared images on Monday of demonstrators walking through the city.
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Callum Sutherland, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
Despite the vast size of the crowd, policing was light: since Yanukovych ordered riot police to open fire on demonstrators in 2014, killing 78 people, the use of police force against protesters has become a political and moral taboo.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2025
The motorcycle ride-sharing driver was hit at the site of clashes near parliament, as police sought to disperse demonstrators.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
That year, then-Gov. James Rhodes ordered members of the National Guard to respond to college demonstrators at Kent State University who were protesting against escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
—Alana Wise, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
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Callum Sutherland, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
Despite the vast size of the crowd, policing was light: since Yanukovych ordered riot police to open fire on demonstrators in 2014, killing 78 people, the use of police force against protesters has become a political and moral taboo.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2025
The motorcycle ride-sharing driver was hit at the site of clashes near parliament, as police sought to disperse demonstrators.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
That year, then-Gov. James Rhodes ordered members of the National Guard to respond to college demonstrators at Kent State University who were protesting against escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
—Alana Wise, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demonstrator
protester
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On the other side of the barricades outside Roy Thomson Hall, Tarek Haj Ebrahim, another pro-Palestine protester, reiterated that the Canadian documentary was part of Israel’s propaganda campaign.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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One such incident occurred in the UK in October 2022, when a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester was dragged into the grounds of a Chinese consulate in Manchester and beaten, in events captured on camera.—
Sophie Tanno,
CNN Money,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Demonstrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demonstrator. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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