provoke
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“Mother!” has done what the writer-director set out to do: Provoke intelligent conversation after experiencing a film like you’ve never seen before.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2017
“Be as honest as you can. Express it as honestly as you can. Provoke, inspire, nudge, cajole others to be likewise. Be open. I think we would all relate better if we did that.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2015
“What are you trying to do? Provoke him into an attack?” he asks me.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Joy holds her courts in great Belshazzar's hall, Where his proud lords attend their monarch's call; The rarest dainties of the teeming East Provoke the revel and adorn the feast.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.
A prince, with eunuchs and the softer sex Shut up so long, would warlike nations vex, Provoke the German, and, neglecting heaven, Forget the truce for which his oath was given.
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir
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