provocation
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“It’s a provocation for sure,” said Takuya Matsuda, an international security scholar at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
China's foreign and defence ministers were in Jakarta Friday for talks with their Indonesian counterparts to seek greater political and military cooperation days after a joint navy drill Taiwan blasted as a "provocation".
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Fashion has a long history of turning provocation, rebellion and even criticism of the industry itself into something desirable — and expensive.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Finally, we offer this series as a provocation: So many of you have spent the past year attending No Kings protests, at which you embodied, physically, what it means to reject monarchical power.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Jupiter will be a source of continuing provocation and excitement for the future human explorers of the Jovian moons.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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