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They found him intellectually engaging, admired his provocative curiosity and became his friends.

From Salon

Yet a pair of recent studies about comb jellies raise provocative questions about Descartes’ maxim.

From Salon

Seattle Times’ late disabled critic Jeff Shannon described Timmy as the most “progressive, provocative and socially relevant disability humour ever presented on American television”.

From BBC

The two nations have closely integrated supply chains that, experts say, could put a brake on Trump’s provocative tariff plans.

In fact, a few months into his Senate run, in February 2022, surveys of the GOP primary showed Vance polling in the single digits, trailing both businessman Mike Gibbons and Joshua Mandel, a onetime moderate who’d become an early imitator of Trump’s provocative style.

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