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Although she says she "wasn't there for social media" and didn't touch or provoke the shark, she admits she was too close to the animals.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Refn: How to provoke the soul is through stillness and silence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

"We must stop accepting levels of child deaths that would provoke international outrage anywhere else in the world," he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

Her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein’s network and his 50th birthday book was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and helped provoke the release of millions of Justice Department documents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

However, squatters ignored the treaty’s provisions and tried to provoke the Muscogees to war.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Truly creative and inspiring art undermines that goal, because it provokes responses like empathy and critical thinking in audiences — which gets in the way of authoritarian domination.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Fractile joins hardware startups that have been racing to bring products to market and strike deals with major customers as agentic AI provokes an upsurge in computing demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

"I understand the anger and fear this provokes, and I will quickly meet with the Jewish community. It must always feel safe in our country," he added.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

The romantic element of Sondheim’s score is best captured in the gorgeous singing of Chris Hunter’s Anthony Hope, whose crooning of “Johanna” provokes an epidemic of goosebumps throughout La Mirada Theatre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

“Take charge of him. You speak his tongue. See that he is fed and find him a warm place by the fire. Stay with him. See that no one provokes him.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Britain grew faster than the U.S. in the second quarter, despite the heightened uncertainty provoked by the war in the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

In fact, the entire stock market could be best described as a casino that incentivizes absurd growth like the historic tech bubble provoked by the spread of artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

But her intervention has provoked a bit of a backlash among former colleagues and has raised some questions around the current first minister's approach going forward.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

That conflict provoked a sharp contraction in the manufacturing economy, with the Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index falling to 49.1 by mid-2019.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Anger began to simmer in Dimple’s veins, even though she knew she’d provoked him.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Known as an “urchin” bait, the lure is dominating professional competitions, sparking a rush of imitators and provoking shelf-clearing buying frenzies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

For some time, Nicaragua’s leaders have largely avoided provoking Trump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

The decisive question is how long Iran's leaders can preserve Hormuz as leverage without provoking an all-out war, renewed unrest or the construction of alternative routes that make the strait matter less.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Price increases raise concern that consumers will buy fewer devices, reducing memory demand overall, as well as provoking worries about frosty relationships between the memory-chip companies and their biggest customers.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

This, I thought, was what my father had been envisioning all those years ago when words had failed him, not necessarily this scene, but something equally capable of provoking such wonder.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris