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They may argue that the House managers have failed to prove that what he did meets the terms of inciting an insurrection.

I don’t think he was inciting violence by that, but I do think that it led to a dangerous situation.

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Parler was effectively knocked offline in January when Amazon, Apple and Google stopped providing it technical services for violating their policies against online posts that incite violence.

She argued there needs to be accountability for Republicans in Congress who made false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election and who have not condemned the events or apologized for their alleged role in inciting the attempted insurrection.

The former president was impeached for a second time in the House of Representatives, most recently for “engaging in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States.”

For example, the MTA prohibits ads that “incite or provoke violence.”

Though Rabinowitz muses that something like this would not only be impractical but also incite severe backlash.

Few people touch that nerve and incite so much passionate conversation than Dunham and Girls.

Robertson, they said, would “never incite or encourage hate.”

Russell Brand is trying to use comedy to incite political revolution.

This is the more annoying, as there are circumstances that particularly incite our curiosity.

And to incite the efforts of honest but unfortunate men, bankrupt laws equally useful to creditor and debtor were established.

It seems impossible to believe that these are the men whom Irish patriots incite to mutiny.

Thy countrymen are wild, fierce, and warlike: why not incite their martial passions in defence of thy doctrines?

Not one true believer whom the flesh does not again and again incite to impatience, anger, pride.

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On this page you'll find 151 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to incite, such as: abet, agitate, arouse, encourage, exhort, and foment.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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