provocation
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The first provocation came from Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Seoul's presidential Blue House condemned the launches as a "provocation that violates United Nations Security Council resolutions" and urged Pyongyang to immediately stop such acts.
From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026
Others speculated that, due to Fennell’s penchant for audience provocation, the quotation marks were an Easter egg indicating that her take on Brontë’s novel would be far from your great-great-grandmother’s “Wuthering Heights.”
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
Miller developed his taste for controversy and provocation at a relatively early age.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
He forbade anyone to talk back to him and could tolerate no opposition; he viewed the slightest disagreement as a provocation.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing provocation
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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