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Example sentences for: provoke

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Recent reports allege that Clinton broke off his sexual relationship with Lewinsky around that time because he was afraid of the attention the Willey story might provoke.
Such risk-aversion would provoke a recession.
Its aim was to provoke a hasty response from the Clinton war room, and that is exactly what happened.
The latter highlights European leaders' "serious alarm" at the shield, which could damage military and diplomatic ties across the Atlantic, and (somehow less likely) provoke an arms race with Russia and China.
Such assessments, which provoke widespread thought and debate, have a major impact on their recipients, often in a wider circle of decisionmakers.