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provocateur
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  • As numbers increased we shifted to high speed on agitprop, black-propaganda rumors, open subversion, provocateur activities, and sabotage.†   (source)
  • The People's Prosecutor, in collaboration with Comrade Mundt, will no doubt consider what action is to be taken against a British agent provocateur and murderer.†   (source)
  • A priest who was thought to be a revolutionary leader but was an agent provocateur.†   (source)
  • Treadstone had a willing agent provocateur to go after the Jackal.†   (source)
  • "She called me a provocateur," said Jason, not understanding why the word came back to him.†   (source)
  • We lost the assassin, but we gained a willing, even obsessed provocateur.†   (source)
  • We'll find the provocateur, we won't let him get away.†   (source)
  • Sivobluy had played the role of agent provocateur.†   (source)
  • Provocateurs.†   (source)
  • The orator studied the provocateur's face, then shifted his gaze to d'Anjou, who stood erect, peering out of his swollen eyes, listening without expression.†   (source)
  • The chameleon was a … provocateur.†   (source)
  • You are a hired provocateur.†   (source)
  • The provocateur.†   (source)
  • "Almost an agent provocateur, wouldn't you say, Dr. Randall?"†   (source)
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