Thesaurus / provocation
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It’s a provocation to reinvent the process of AI development to include those who ultimately become subject to the algorithms.
FIVE WAYS TO MAKE AI A GREATER FORCE FOR GOOD IN 2021KAREN HAOJANUARY 8, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe boundaries between the digital and analog all but disappeared as rage, provocation and gloating bounced back and forth, again and again.
‘NOTHING CAN STOP WHAT’S COMING’: FAR-RIGHT FORUMS THAT FOMENTED CAPITOL RIOTS VOICE GLEE IN AFTERMATHCRAIG TIMBERG, DREW HARWELL, RAZZAN NAKHLAWI, HARRISON SMITHJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLuther became a conservative darling this spring for her provocation, spending two days in custody on contempt of court charges.
RESTRICTIONS ON THE SOUTH TEXAS BORDER WERE MEANT TO PROTECT PEOPLE FROM COVID-19. THEN THE HANDCUFFS CAME OUT.BY VIANNA DAVILA AND REN LARSONDECEMBER 19, 2020PROPUBLICAThat she praised Graham’s oversight of the process, and then got up and hugged him, was simply the final provocation for many liberals.
FEINSTEIN HUGS AND PRAISES LINDSEY GRAHAM, SPARKING AN OUTCRY FROM LIBERALS: ‘TIME TO RETIRE’TEO ARMUSOCTOBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON POSTAs my Vox colleague Jane Coaston pointed out, Miller delights in provocation for provocation’s sake.
STEPHEN MILLER, EXPLAINEDSEAN ILLINGOCTOBER 7, 2020VOXIran is no saint, and is entirely capable of provocations of its own.
IS WAR NEXT FOR 2020?CHARU KASTURISEPTEMBER 21, 2020OZYNever, upon any account, or under any provocation, return rudeness by rudeness.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEYOne thing is certain: Robert was in no aggressive mood, and would not have resumed hostilities without really serious provocation.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONPerhaps they killed under great provocation, in the heat of passion.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANThe tremendous armies and monstrous navies have become far more a provocation and danger than a defense.
WAYS OF WAR AND PEACEDELIA AUSTRIANWORDS RELATED TO PROVOCATION
- affront
- audacity
- back talk
- big talk
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- defy
- effrontery
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- gas
- guts
- hot air
- impudence
- impugnment
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- throwing of the gauntlet
- unruliness
- action
- activity
- ado
- adventure
- agitation
- animation
- bother
- buzz
- commotion
- confusion
- discomposure
- disturbance
- dither
- drama
- elation
- emotion
- excitation
- feeling
- ferment
- fever
- flurry
- frenzy
- furor
- fuss
- heat
- hubbub
- hullabaloo
- hurry
- hysteria
- impulse
- instigation
- intoxication
- kicks
- melodrama
- motivation
- motive
- movement
- passion
- perturbation
- provocation
- rage
- stimulation
- stimulus
- stir
- thrill
- titillation
- to-do
- trepidation
- tumult
- turmoil
- urge
- warmth
- wildness
- allurement
- bait
- carrot
- catalyst
- come on
- consideration
- determinant
- drive
- encouragement
- enticement
- excuse
- exhortation
- goad
- ground
- impetus
- impulse
- incitement
- influence
- insistence
- inspiration
- instigation
- motivation
- motive
- persuasion
- provocation
- purpose
- rationale
- reason
- reason why
- spring
- spur
- stimulant
- stimulation
- stimulus
- temptation
- urge
- whip
- allurements
- bait
- carrots
- catalysts
- come-ons
- considerations
- determinants
- drives
- encouragements
- enticements
- excuses
- exhortations
- goads
- grounds
- impetus
- impulses
- incitements
- influences
- insistence
- inspirations
- instigations
- motivations
- motives
- persuasions
- provocations
- purposes
- rationales
- reason whies
- reasons
- springs
- spurs
- stimulants
- stimulations
- stimuli
- temptations
- urges
- whips
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