"provoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The report did not say what provoked the officer to fire.
- So they tried to do it in order to provoke people to violence.
- They're also more easily provoked into a physical response to a perceived problem.
- He states that a "united America" would be less likely to provoke other nations to attack.
- This man had the ability to provoke her to madness.
- The author was trying to provoke the question to the reader, "What does it mean to be human?"
- "If that is so, then why do you waste time in provoking him to war?"
- Certainly not to the point of provoking the instructor to a fight.
- And he can provoke us toward skepticism about their claims to truth.
- All this could provoke a domestic backlash to the deal.
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