as in provocative
tending to excite political disorder or insurrection
the restless crowd was stirred up by the inflammatory rhetoric
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Recent Examples of inflammatory
The researchers also found heightened inflammatory responses in T cells (a type of white blood cell) known as MAIT.
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New Atlas, 25 July 2025
But having psoriasis puts you at risk of developing psoriatic arthritis, an inflammatory condition that impacts the joints.
—Korin Miller, Flow Space, 18 July 2025
Remove Removing stressors, foods and toxins considered to be inflammatory triggers is the first step, according to Ford-Norton.
—Amy McGorry, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2025
In addition, a direct causative link between DNA damage and the inflammatory immune response to cellular threats was never firmly established in a living organism.
—Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 14 July 2025
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New Atlas, 25 July 2025
But having psoriasis puts you at risk of developing psoriatic arthritis, an inflammatory condition that impacts the joints.
—Korin Miller, Flow Space, 18 July 2025
Remove Removing stressors, foods and toxins considered to be inflammatory triggers is the first step, according to Ford-Norton.
—Amy McGorry, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2025
In addition, a direct causative link between DNA damage and the inflammatory immune response to cellular threats was never firmly established in a living organism.
—Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 14 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for inflammatory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflammatory
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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
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The deepest and most provocative questions relate to why most people’s earliest memories are from age four to five (or later) if memories are being stored in their brain by age one.—
Nick Turk-Browne,
Scientific American,
28 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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The film was divisive from the jump, with some critics saying Aster’s film is incendiary on purpose – meant to rile conspiracy theorists, incite liberal outrage and foreshadow the inevitability of a second Trump term.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
22 July 2025
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Arson – To unlawfully and intentionally damage or attempt to damage any real or personal property of another person or entity by fire or incendiary device.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
21 July 2025
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“Inflammatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflammatory. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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