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provocation
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  • Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.†  (source)
  • Seldom to the point of death unless there were outrageous profit or provocation in it.†  (source)
  • Did she dissolve into tears or launch into tantrums at the slightest provocation?†  (source)
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  • But Nelson as a pupil is apt to turn teacher himself at the least provocation.†  (source)
  • It wasn't obvious aggression, just small provocations.†  (source)
  • It was a composure born of extreme provocation.†  (source)
  • And we're not going to be stopped by military provocations.†  (source)
  • Trina's father, Walter Garnett, was a former boxer whose failed career had turned him into a violent, abusive alcoholic well known to local police for throwing a punch with little provocation.†  (source)
  • But I have other provocations.†  (source)
  • With no obvious provocation, he leaped down to the floor and bounced right out of the building like a bright-colored, fur-covered soccer ball.†  (source)
  • After that series of provocations, the city exploded into a riot.†  (source)
  • It was an act of outright provocation.†  (source)
  • He had not the same provocations of exhaustion and hopelessness; he had now something to work for, to struggle for.†  (source)
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