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instigator
[in-sti-gey-ter]
noun
a person or thing that provokes or incites an action or course: Plays to be performed at the festival focus on a theme of how youth can be the instigators of positive change.
Peaceful protesters outnumbered the violent instigators, and they kept the demonstration from becoming a riot.
Plays to be performed at the festival focus on a theme of how youth can be the instigators of positive change.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of instigator1
Example Sentences
Make no mistake: the Trump administration is the instigator here, and not just because they sent ICE in to start nabbing people willy-nilly.
“These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLERATED,” President Trump wrote on social media, shortly after ordering the National Guard onto our streets.
In the meeting, he promised the "entire state apparatus" was "fully mobilised to track down the perpetrators and instigators of this violence and put them out of action", according to French media reports.
Barrister James Holding, representing Sinaj, said his client had "come along for the ride" rather than being the instigator.
But while these programs and jobs were an “instigator of necessary change,” they were never meant to be the complete solution to the industry’s diversity problem, English said.
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