How to Use activist in a Sentence

activist

1 of 2 noun
  • Irons plays a human rights activist who sets out to help her.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 14 May 2026
  • Younger activists there took it one step further.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The Iowa high school shooter was a trans activist.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • His life as an activist draws out some of his sharpest memories.
    — Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • But activists have balked at the idea that flag waving could lead to arrests.
    — Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Four other activists were detained the same week.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Some food activists have commended the move.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Party activists want to work for the party, not just raise money.
    — TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Party activists like her but concluded this is not her time.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2026
  • The families in our film are not activists or outliers.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 June 2026
  • Today, no group feels more betrayed than the activists who helped make that shift happen.
    — Charlie Sabgir, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • These are activists who are mostly inside Iran.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • There, activists will call for ICE to leave Austin.
    — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
  • His work as an activist puts him in a good position to lead the county party.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Saba—the activist—wanted more leverage over the funds.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Ellsberg spent much of the rest of his life as prominent anti-war activist.
    — Conor Murray, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The activists also have failed to get other world leaders to back their demands for change.
    — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The group verifies each death with a network of activists on the ground in Iran.
    — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • These are the first pair of eaglets to have hatched since the death of wildlife activist Sandy Steers.
    — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • But users and activists who had come to rely on that flag suddenly found themselves in the dark last month.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The brand’s vocal founder Chip Wilson and activists have both pushed for change.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Fernández has been an activist against the Castro regime for decades.
    — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Fernández has been an activist against the Castro regime for decades.
    — Sofia Saric, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
  • As is the case with all activists, some of Saba’s suggestions are good, some less so.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Richie recalls of the legendary performer and activist who died last year at age 96.
    — Mikael Wood, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Other activists are less verbal.
    — Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One activist decided to take matters into his own hands.
    — Anand Gopal, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
  • At least 22 activists were kidnapped that year, and 13 are still missing.
    — Niniek Karmini and Edna Tariganthe Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The pungent fumes from the foam engulfed the air as activists waded through the toxic water.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026
  • There also might be risks for relatives of activists who speak openly in public.
    — ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026

activist

2 of 2 adjective
  • But that is a risky activist thesis on its own.
    — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The activist investor’s moves sent shares up by 7%.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • That doesn’t leave a lot of room for taking advice from activist groups.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 6 May 2024
  • But that doesn’t mean the party’s activist base is happy about it.
    — Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 23 June 2026
  • Jana Partners is now the fifth activist investor in this stock.
    — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • No activist judge, not this one or any other, is going to stop us from doing that.
    — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • At the time, Haysom was a member of a very activist human rights law firm.
    — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • His legacy is not nostalgia for a more activist era.
    — Alexanderia Baker-Haidara, semafor.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe that’s because the activist firm is loading up on shares, pushing up the price.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Danson said his father helped shape his own activist spirit.
    — Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Also, all the while, he's remained one of the greatest activist voices of our time.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • Those confrontations worry some in the activist world.
    — Tim Sullivan, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But that doesn’t mean the party’s activist base is happy about it, writes Greg Bluestein.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 23 June 2026
  • No activist investors have made a play for the company, shares of which are down 14% over the last year.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 18 June 2026
  • There are activist students who stand up for a cease-fire and push the district to teach them more about Palestine.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 7 May 2024
  • And chatter has been building for months that an activist investor might look to push in at the company.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 18 June 2026
  • In the meantime and on this matter, our activist friends should leave our police officers alone.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Solidaire now distributes tens of millions of dollars a year to activist groups.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Our only hope against this evil is the activist outrage of these parents groups and, of course, the grace of almighty God.
    — For The Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The activist investor plans to press for changes to turn around the company's performance.
    — Sean Conlon,alex Harring, CNBC, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The activist investor plans to press for changes to turn around the company's performance.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2026
  • But activist presence is one of the top catalysts for M&A.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • When the city is in crisis, the building becomes an activist headquarters.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Pressure from the activist investor comes as Target is down more than 27% for the year.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Even nationally, some activist groups have pushed back against protest strategies that could lead to clashes.
    — Tim Sullivan, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Now the activist investor is faced with the ultimate fixer upper.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 13 June 2023
  • Kohl’s is under pressure from activist shareholders to turn around its business.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The last time an activist boat succeeded in reaching the strip was in 2008.
    — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Are there artists or people within the industry now who share the activist instinct of your heyday?
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 June 2023
  • That smaller stake means his perch is vulnerable to an activist investor in the future.
    — Gabriel Sherman, Vanity Fair, 14 Jan. 2026

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