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Example sentences for: provocation

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Overhype is a thought-provoking term, the provocation occurring unintentionally, and in two ways.
However, the sentence could just as well have appeared in a government report expressing an admonition to keep the numbers secret, based on the fact that numbers of such magnitude would anger the slaves' descendents and on an assumed law to the effect that sufficient provocation caused people to rebel.
The second provocation is conceptual: How does one match up this term and its variants ( hype , underhype ) with a corresponding reality?
2. Provocation.
Close's career of deliberate provocation is airbrushed out.