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instigating

preposition as in behind

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Bell: I will say, I read it first — not to take credit for instigating the partnership, that’s not what I’m doing.

When the Guatemalan government tried to push back, the CIA helped United Fruit out by instigating a coup.

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It began referring to the democratically-elected government in Ukraine as the "Kyiv regime" and accused Western nations of instigating the country's 2014 revolution, and of trying to undermine or even destroy Russia.

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She has praised major reforms such as the introduction of body-cameras — including under her watch in California — and credited Black Lives Matter with instigating those improvements.

The men instigating the outrage against her, she writes, were Michael Lunsford, executive director of Citizens for a New Louisiana, and Ryan Thames, who runs the Facebook blog Bayou State of Mind.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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