provoked
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It has also provoked debate over whether the mission of higher education — and help paying for it — should be tied to a paycheck after graduation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Salgado Araujo’s death provoked outrage in Mexico, where government officials this week called on U.S. prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into the case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Christophe Sanson, who calls himself the Noise Lawyer, said his firm has more than 100 cases involving air conditioning systems that have provoked legal wars, a sharp increase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
In Gdansk, she also met Poland's ex-president Lech Walesa, who led the 1980s Solidarity movement that provoked the downfall of the Communist regime in Warsaw.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
It wasn’t an emotion he had much experience with—it didn’t fit him—and he knew it wasn’t really Thyon who had provoked it, but his own powerlessness to save Sarai.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
