incite
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The 36-year-old was told not to post or incite comments on social media about that case or Miss Harrison, but did so multiple times in 2025 while she was pregnant.
From BBC β Aug. 6, 2026
IPO mania has begun, and nothing kickstarts initial public offerings like spreadsheets flashing green to incite the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 31, 2026
And in a brief explosive moment of recognition between their characters, Lane and Abbott incite the Winter Garden Theatre audience into a paroxysm of grief.
From Los Angeles Times β May 5, 2026
The opportunity to actually engage with the multitude of conditions that may incite that violence feels unique and desperately needed.
From Salon β Apr. 9, 2026
The gentry of the neighborhood, hearing of his pronouncement, appeared in the following days to protest, saying that he would incite a rebellion in the neighborhood if others heard of his system.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Their younger brother, Tillotson, meanwhile, incites mayhem among local churchgoers by impersonating an angel, much to his sisters’ dismay.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 8, 2026
Bree begins the film desperately wanting gender-affirming surgery, so much so that her urgency incites the film’s madcap mumblecore events.
From Salon β Aug. 28, 2026
"Real Madrid condemns this type of gesture and expression that incites violence and hatred in sports and society."
From Barron's β Feb. 25, 2026
Throughout the show, we watch a young man contend with rice as if it really is a rare metal, one that first brings great prosperity but soon incites competition and greed.
From New York Times β Dec. 15, 2023
I can see how our words are like fuel that incites him further.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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The measure bars or expels foreigners deemed to have "spread or incited hate messages" against the country or its people.
From Barron's β Jul. 30, 2026
The man in the tub is the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, a journalist and physician who had incited a series of judicial massacres.
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 21, 2025
Their passion incited a change of the film’s ending, and in turn, one of the all-time great professions of love ever captured on film — a change of fate, right at the stroke of midnight.
From Salon β Dec. 17, 2025
Staring defeat in the face, Medvedev marched over to the official and incited a frenzied New York crowd before shouting at Allensworth.
From BBC β Aug. 28, 2025
Most of them gave technical evidence to show that I left the country illegally and that I had incited African workers to strike during the three-day stay-at-home in May 1961.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Representatives of Meta Platforms, TikTok, Snapchat and other platforms met government officials this week and agreed to speed up the handling of reports of content inciting violence.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 24, 2026
He faces a possible death penalty if convicted of treason for allegedly inciting the public to boycott elections last year.
From Barron's β Oct. 22, 2026
Acme conspicuously sets the plot’s inciting actions in 1992—the same year Warner Bros. officially merged its entertainment operations with those of Time Inc., making for one of the largest media houses in the world.
From Slate β Sep. 1, 2026
Last year, Wangchuk was arrested in October with the government accusing him of inciting protests which he denied.
From BBC β Jul. 13, 2026
Aboard the vessel were Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, two of the most famous and influential of all the anarchists who had been charged with inciting revolution in America.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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