provoking

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Price increases raise concern that consumers will buy fewer devices, reducing memory demand overall, as well as provoking worries about frosty relationships between the memory-chip companies and their biggest customers.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

Lenin’s party would soon take power, provoking a long and bloody civil war out of which would emerge the Soviet Union.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

The two preachers have previously been detained by authorities, the most recent being in January, when they were summoned by police for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

In April, one of the internet’s favorite therapists asked his followers a provoking question.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2026

Romeo and Juliet’s agonising predicament acts like wallpaper to nineteenth-century music: almost wherever you look it is lurking in the background, provoking decade-by-decade settings of many shapes, sizes and formats.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall