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incendiary

adjective as in causing trouble, damage

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Authorities have said one plot involved putting incendiary devices on the planes of shipping giant DHL.

However, “the broader context of a heated rap battle, with incendiary language and offensive accusations hurled by both participants, would not incline the reasonable listener to believe that ‘Not Like Us’ imparts verifiable facts.”

“With clarity, we know this is incendiary fire, and that the subject that we arrested started it,” Cooper said at a press conference Wednesday.

Suffice it to say that the song was incendiary then and is arguably even more incendiary in today’s heightened sociopolitical climate, where words have been weaponized like never before.

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An increasingly tiresome "jam tomorrow" line only created the most incendiary environment that some Rangers observers can ever remember.

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