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brought on

verb as in provoke

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accelerate
advance
cause
expedite
generate
give rise to
induce
inspire
lead to
occasion
precipitate
prompt

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You brought-on women," said Taulbee, "thinks New Christmas is real Christmas; but it haint.

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We went to Chicago and religiously visited the Art Building, and in our nice new creaky shoes we walked past miles and miles of brought-on paintings by foreign artists, whose names we could not pronounce, in order to find some sentimental domestic subject.

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