provocation
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Owens, for her part, has spent years building an audience through increasingly unhinged provocations.
From Salon • May 23, 2026
Taking a tale that now seems as though it came from another world, he has illuminated its timeless provocations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Themes kick up that you couldn’t have guessed from the first act: provocations about class and caste, continent-spanning capitalism and surveillance states.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
In putting forward this charge, the prosecution relied on evidence found on former military intelligence chief Yeo In-hyung's phone that contained words suggesting potential provocations.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
They focus on the North’s chronic food shortages, human rights violations, military provocations, nuclear program, and dependence on China.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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