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Adjective
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The provocative name helps drive those velocities, making shoppers do a double-take when browsing for ice cream.—
Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025 -
His rhetoric is provocative, but slippery enough to avoid outright extremism.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Sugar feeds the wrong kinds of bacteria, including Candida, yeast, and other inflammatory microbes.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Over time, this can trigger an inflammatory response in your child’s body.—
Laura Lu,
Parents,
30 July 2025
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After a jury found him and three other members of the right-wing militia guilty of seditious conspiracy, he was sentenced in June 2023 to serve four and a half years in prison.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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In this febrile context, pretty much any political criticism could be deemed seditious, even if true, and writers and printers were regularly harassed, arrested, put on trial, and imprisoned (or even executed, as happened in 1693 and 1719 to the publishers of Jacobite tracts).—
Fara Dabhoiwala,
Harpers Magazine,
4 June 2025
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“Agitational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agitational. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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