incite
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The opportunity to actually engage with the multitude of conditions that may incite that violence feels unique and desperately needed.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
Researchers estimated that it would incite higher unemployment and create a drag of 1% to 3% on annual gross domestic product growth.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
But the capacity to incite Greta Thunberg to join a flotilla isn’t real international power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
However, it has been cleared of breaching the BBC's rules on impartiality and being likely to encourage or incite crime.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
I have thought that my family, having settled among immigrants who had also been their neighbors in the ancestral land, needed to clean their name, and a wrong word would incite the kinspeople even here.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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