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Example sentences for: provoked

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Though hardly controversial by today's standards (not least because we know that TR did choose to run in 1912), the story provoked an outcry, including a denunciation from Freud himself.
In the rest of the world, the coup provoked different reactions.
Gloomy conservative pundits, eager to finger culprits, accused congressional Republicans of having provoked needless hostility.
Marine court decision provoked an outburst of anti-American comment in the Italian press that is without parallel in recent years.
New Englanders, fearing British corruption and tyranny, provoked the American Revolution.