activist
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3.7
- adjective
- /ˈæktɪvɪst/
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activista
- Her activist efforts have helped raise awareness about social justice issues in the community.
- activist policy
- activist role
- activist approach
This isn't this is an activist academic study.
- This isn't this is an activist academic study.
- So to be a witness for this, drones as a form of activist journalism and documenting reality.
- So I think we all, in my view, we all should be activist.
- And really the bow wave of that is, is the the activist, you know, movement, the activist groundswell for freedom of gender.
- And he says we need, quote, activist judges to to help business interests on the court.
- So the trans ideology claim, the trans activist claim is that self identification is how you know whether someone is female or male.
- That's the kind of opportunity that comes in the door if you are activist, whether it's through a job or just reach, you know, being determined to expand your network.
- You have a entrepreneurial and activist and various types of action oriented that's focused in that direction.
Examples
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As media attention declined, so did support for activist environmental organizations.
Academic text (1996) -
Many young people today are engaged in activist movements to fight climate change.
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Both are focused, at least in part, on an activist spiritual art.
Academic text (2004) -
I think that there are other teachers who are doing it with more activist aims.
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When Obama was sworn into office in January 2009, he had already developed an activist vision of his foreign policy destiny.
Academic text (2012) -
Positive artistic representations of Muslim men, and especially activist Muslim men, are exceptionally rare.
Academic text (2008) -
A more activist legislature has bolstered democratic control through increased supervision of the military.
Academic text (2002) -
His old conservatism persevered, but only alongside a new, activist worldview.
Academic text (2010) -
In response, the AAUG engaged in unprecedented educational and activist endeavors to promote the Palestinian case in the U.S.
Academic text (2018) -
The Clinton-Gore perspective was quite clear—one based on a much more activist, interventionist role for the federal government.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
282
4.1
A person who supports a cause or policy in public
105
5.1
A person who supports social and political change to make society fairer
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5.6
A person who campaigns strongly for social or political change
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
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7.5
A judge who decides cases based on personal beliefs to promote social change
How Active
Surface Forms
Etymology
Activist as an adjective comes from the same parts: active ('doing' or 'ready to act') and -ist ('a person'). It describes people or actions that actively support or work for change.