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Boll believes Germany “banned” the film by not assigning it an age rating, fearing it could incite violence, making it unfit for German theatrical release.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

And in a brief explosive moment of recognition between their characters, Lane and Abbott incite the Winter Garden Theatre audience into a paroxysm of grief.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

"Disseminating such materials or inaccurate information can incite public panic and create a false impression of the country's actual situation," Shamsi said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

For now, the White House is giving priority to stability, moving to sideline policy decisions that could incite retaliation from China or derail the summit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

I had found all sorts of ways to incite a quarrel between Phil and Gay, which gave me a perverse satisfaction—until Phil lost his usual cool and stormed out to his workshop.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Bree begins the film desperately wanting gender-affirming surgery, so much so that her urgency incites the film’s madcap mumblecore events.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

This new rule will also apply to any team official who incites players to leave the pitch.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

"Real Madrid condemns this type of gesture and expression that incites violence and hatred in sports and society."

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

In Eugene: John Belushi’s character Bluto incites the famous “Animal House” food fight at the Erb Memorial Union cafeteria at the University of Oregon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

Usually, he ends up by discussing something far afield, an act which incites skepticism and suspicion in those anxious for a straight-out explanation.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

She never incited anger; she simply pointed out the facts as she saw them and let human nature take its course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The measure bars or expels foreigners deemed to have "spread or incited hate messages" against the country or its people.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

While this push to redirect the country’s scientific research has incited alarm, reactions to interventions in the historical humanities have been more muted.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

The man in the tub is the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, a journalist and physician who had incited a series of judicial massacres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

Most of them gave technical evidence to show that I left the country illegally and that I had incited African workers to strike during the three-day stay-at-home in May 1961.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Frank Ferguson, the Chief Crown Prosecutor for the CPS, said inciting racial hatred was a "very serious offence" which went "beyond any debate about freedom of speech."

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Acme conspicuously sets the plot’s inciting actions in 1992—the same year Warner Bros. officially merged its entertainment operations with those of Time Inc., making for one of the largest media houses in the world.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

A Hong Kong court convicted activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan of inciting subversion under the territory’s national security law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

When that will happen remains to be seen, but Langione said recent factors, including public market interest in the technology and a hangover from their lack of AI readiness, are inciting enterprise investments this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Spreading dissension and inciting to mutiny. Silver, you’re under arrest too, for failing to report to Toadflax this evening and causing your duty to devolve on a comrade. You’re both to come with me.”

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams