How to Use propagandist in a Sentence

propagandist

noun
  • The Party propagandist in Sabit’s cell had been fired from her job.
    — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • They wouldn't be called propagandists for doing it, either.
    — Nicole Russell, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
  • These ideas have thrived through generations of cranks and propagandists and are now omnipresent.
    — Mike Rothschild, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Its priests are the censors, the propagandists, the secret police.
    — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Russian state propagandists claimed the restaurant had been a base for foreign soldiers.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Legendary suffragettes went to trial there, as did a Nazi propagandist.
    — Nina Ruggiero, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2021
  • Online games where participants role-play a propagandist had even longer effects.
    — Renee Diresta, Wired, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The group’s propagandists hid the identity of the fighters by blurring out their faces and, in most scenes, distorting their voices.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But the hunger crisis isn’t a figment of some propagandist’s imagination.
    — Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2025
  • But no one besides pure and unalloyed propagandists wants journalists to be more closed-minded or less willing to listen and learn.
    — Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The confrontation between Putin and Prigozhin is also a clash of propagandists.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
  • This Stasi-worthy logrolling is how the media propagandize for the propagandist.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2023
  • He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt.
    — Bhumika Tharoor, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Liberals called him a bigot, a sexist and a partisan propagandist with a profoundly mean streak.
    — Mary McNamara, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Hu Xijin, a top party propagandist, senses dangers in all the demands for an apology.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Mike Adams, who goes by the nom de guerre Health Ranger, can politely be described as an antiscience propagandist.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2010
  • Nouran is a rising star in TV news who becomes a full-on state propagandist while accumulating wealth and power.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Vietnam was a propagandist’s bonanza for critics of the United States and the West.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Since the rebellion, Kremlin propagandists have portrayed Putin as a wise leader who averted a civil war.
    — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • Again, this already happens, but AI is giving propagandists some sharp tools, widening the pool of potential victims.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Nazi propagandist was on his feet in the front row of the balcony at Berlin’s ornate Mozartsaal, frothing at the motion picture screen.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
  • One Communist Party propagandist said Australia needed to be put in its place — like scraping the gum off the bottom of a shoe.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Today, the message being spread by Russian propagandists is that any superpower has the right to violence.
    — Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Vladimir Solovyov, one of the leading propagandists on Russian state TV, made this clear to his millions of viewers this week.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Concerned that a key asset might lose power, the Russians have sent a team of propagandists to Budapest to ensure that Orbán wins.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Paul Goebbels was the chief propagandist for the Nazi Party and one of Hitler's closest and most passionate followers.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Other examples would make a Soviet propagandist wince.
    — Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But McCraney is a poet, not a moralistic ideologue or a political propagandist happy to play to the choir.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022
  • Russian officials, Kremlin propagandists, war bloggers, businesses and celebrities are on the app.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Side by side, propagandists and reporters find shelter at Helsinki’s grand neo-Renaissance Hotel Kämp.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025

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