Provocation
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The official Chinese reaction to North Korea’s latest
provocation
was stern: China is “strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed” to the test, and it is calling for the resumption of international talks.
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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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