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US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, in an effort to limit the scope for provocation, called on all claimants to territories in the South China Sea to stop island-building and land-reclamation efforts there.

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Without provocation, suddenly she attacked, against her Prime Minister's orders, the next-door neighbor's oil fields.

[A provocation from Danny Hillis:] [It's time to start talking about engineering our climate] What if there was a way to build a thermostat that allowed you to turn down the temperature of the earth anytime you wanted?

And sometimes, he and his cohort would chant that provocation the entire school bus ride, 45 minutes up, 45 minutes back: "Percy!

So, what started as a bit of an inside joke with myself and a willful provocation, has become a thing.

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