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provoking
adjective as in vexing
Strong matches
Example Sentences
They were motivated to clinch a deal without provoking the ire of YouTube TV’s base of nearly 10 million customers.
He replaced the members of the vaccine advisory panel in June, and fired its chief Susan Monarez in late August, provoking a group of senior staff to resign in protest.
In August last year, seven TikTokers were sentenced to six months in prison by a court in the capital, Mogadishu, for provoking civil unrest and spreading immorality.
Professors and journalists, too, are facing punishment for their comments, provoking a debate over so-called cancel culture.
“These occupations occurred for a range of reasons,” he wrote, “and often started out suppressing violence, but they ended up provoking or exacerbating widespread civil unrest, political violence and terrorism…Things usually escalate.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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