protester

variants or protestor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for protester
Noun
  • In March, demonstrators took to the streets to oppose his rule and display their support for Magyar.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Defense Secretary Mark Esper refused his request in 2020 to shoot George Floyd demonstrators.
    Mark Green, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In New York, marchers snaked their way past Trump Tower Saturday.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • On Sunday, Reed and activists will march from the City of St. Jude Church to the steps of the State Capitol, retracing the historic route marchers took in 1965.
    Axios, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • On Monday night, anti-Israel agitators with the group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) protested in the train station’s main concourse.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • This event is being driven by left-wing extremists and paid agitators with a clear agenda.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The senator’s appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is consistent with his popularity among young progressives who admire him as an uncompromising and outspoken firebrand.
    Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Buchanan wore his Nixon loyalty as a badge of honor throughout his career as a conservative firebrand.
    Made by History, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Filmmaker, actor, writer and good-natured provocateur John Waters turned 79 this week.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Yoko, a new biography about Ono by David Sheff, opens with a prologue about Cut Piece, introducing her—as provocateur, martyr, and social experimenter—through the lens of her own creation.
    Beatrice Loayza, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And so political leaders, demagogues in particular, can provide simple answers to things that seem very complicated and that stir people in a way that can be directed.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 22 Feb. 2025
  • That’s classically how a demagogue works and how a demagogue becomes a tyrant.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The merger proposal drew concern from competing concert promoters and venue owners, who claimed at the time that combining Ticketmaster and Live Nation would force them to work with their largest competitor.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The concept of WrestleMania was created by Vince McMahon, a second-generation wrestling promoter who served as the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for four decades before resigning from his role with the company in 2024.
    Mark LaSota, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Protester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/protester. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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