provocative
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The flamboyant character with big gestures and provocative one-liners was not the man we saw in the courtroom.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Texas while inserting provocative advice on child emancipation that the real organization says it never authored or authorized.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Most provocative are the thousands of small seismic tremors that emanated from the area of the slide in the days prior to the mountainside collapsing.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Now “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, addresses that lack—and, in doing so, reveals both Krasner’s and Pollock’s independence and their connections, raising provocative questions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
She had been brought up around plenty of cursing, and knew every word and provocative construction, but since she’d become a mother, since she’d converted, she hadn’t sworn more than once or twice.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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