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• n  someone who deliberately foments trouble
  she was the instigator of their quarrel
• n  a person who initiates a course of action

• Climate change is already a key instigator of conflict in areas like Darfur, where drought likely worsened by global warming helped trigger a civil war that has claimed over .
• Pyongyang is plainly the instigator, continuing its rash of missile and nuclear tests while apparently seeking hard currency by peddling weapons to all buyers.
• Climate change is already a key instigator of conflict in areas like Darfur, where drought likely worsened by global warming helped trigger a civil war that has claimed over .

• provoker
• inciter
• instigant
• firebrand
• initiator

News & Articles

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• Sandra Bullock & Chelsea Handler Reminisce About That Time They Got Naked Together
  (Photo: E!) Chelsea Handler likes getting naked and showering with other celebrities. She roped Conan O'Brien into a steamy scene when she took over his old studio, and went "areola to areola" with Sandra Bullock last October. Bullock returned to Chelsea Lately Monday night where Handler accused her of being the instigator of nakedness. "That's right, I suggested we be naked together in a very ...
  June 25, 2013 - Zimbio
• Prosecutors to Paint Zimmerman as 'Wannabe Cop'
  The case that renewed America's long, bitter and polarizing debate about race and guns begins today, as prosecutors and George Zimmerman's legal team try to convince a Florida jury that they represent the victim of a tragic and deadly chance encounter. But the instigator of that confrontation nearly 16 months ago still remains unclear.        
  June 24, 2013 - ABC News
• Zimmerman Murder Trial Set to Begin
  The case that renewed America's long, bitter and polarizing debate about race and guns begins today, as prosecutors and George Zimmerman's legal team try to convince a Florida jury that they represent the victim of a tragic and deadly chance encounter. But the instigator of that confrontation nearly 16 months ago still remains unclear.        
  June 24, 2013 - ABC News

Quotes

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• Bil Keane in Editor & Publisher
  There was nothing I did in the cartoon world or in the business world that she wasn't the instigator of,Bil told the Associated Press Sunday from his Arizona home. "She certainly deserves all the credit I get credit for."
• Philip Gourevitch in Sydney Morning Herald
  She was never an instigator,Gourevitch says, "and she was always going out of her way to either avoid the most unpleasant inflicting of discomfort on the prisoners, or find ways to offer them comfort."
• William Shatner in FOXNews
  That was a good hero,Shatner says. "He made decisions. He was forceful. He was compassionate. He was the instigator. He fought hard and long physically and emotionally. He carried the dilemma of whether to intrude or not to intrude. It was...