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They want to incite a riot.incite = to provoke
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Was this an attempt to incite sympathy? (source)incite = cause or encourage
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The rumors were spread by her enemies to incite the people against her. (source)incite = provoke action of
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He had just finished reading Doctor Zhivago, a book that incited him to scribble excited notes in the margins and underline several passages: Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. (source)incited = encouraged
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My father could have made good money selling them, but if the officials found out he would have been publicly executed for inciting a rebellion. (source)inciting = encouraging
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The name of my friend Neggar means "Beloved," although it can be more accurately translated as "She Whose Name Almost Incites Riots." (source)Incites = provokes (encourages or causes)
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The mass struggle session had turned into a scene of madness, and her appearance would only incite more violence.† (source)
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It was strange, that moment; strange because I could never have predicted the feeling her words incited in me, the way that I saw her now with that small enticing waist, saw the round, plump curve of her breasts and those delicate, pouting lips.† (source)
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It was on brainfrizz: inciting to violence, membership in a banned organization, hampering the dissemination of commercial products, treasonable crimes against society.† (source)inciting = provoking action
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But Owen Meany could not be persuaded to protect himself; he told Dan Needham that the nature of Mrs. Lish's incitement constituted "A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY"; not even to save himself from Randy White's wrath would Owen Meany repeat what a slanderous rumor he had heard.† (source)
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My poor timing has ruined the drama of the event and now the smile on my face incites angry whispers.† (source)
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To be losing such pleasures was no trifle; to be losing them, because she was in the midst of closeness and noise, to have confinement, bad air, bad smells, substituted for liberty, freshness, fragrance, and verdure, was infinitely worse: but even these incitements to regret were feeble, compared with what arose from the conviction of being missed by her best friends, and the longing to be useful to those who were wanting her!† (source)
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That would, they hoped, incite the Confederacy to continue the war against the Union.† (source)
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Normally, her comment might have incited at least a flush from me, but my mood was too serious.† (source)
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Because, sure, there were issues with my grades (and plenty of other stuff Mr. Beeman didn't know about) but the inciting incident, the thing that had got me called in, the whole business with the cigarettes in the courtyard—whose fault was that?† (source)
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Her eyes never left: him while he spoke and when he'd finished she stayed silent so that suddenly he worried she might have taken his words amiss and seen in them some self-serving incitement.† (source)
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