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In India, he said, "the most innocent trivia provokes official paranoia about security."
The 1990s Wilde provokes because he is not simple at all.
In fact, the sheer pronunciation of the letters in sounds like the lip-smacking yum yum or the postprandial urp and sigh provokes a chuckle.
From him we learn how indecision Of character provokes derision.
reduction of tension in the ECM provokes apoptosis and reduces α-SMA; as human dermal myofibroblasts readily undergo apoptosis in response to gel relaxation (or wound contraction) their absence from the neodermis of a healed wound is likely the result of apoptosis.