provoked
Example Sentences
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The arrest of medical workers has provoked outrage among Iranians and prompted the Medical Council to demand security for people working in healthcare.
And he knew what it was like to be provoked, how terrible that could feel, how it was like the outside world agreeing with every bad thing you knew to be true about yourself.
From Literature
But his ambitions beyond the north west of England have long been transparent - and long provoked a roll of the eyes or a raised eyebrow from Sir Keir.
From BBC
The demolition provoked the worst religious violence in India for many decades - it was, he said years later, the "gravest setback" to secularism since the country's independence from Britain in 1947.
From BBC
The comments provoked anger among UK politicians and veterans' families.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
