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In natural English speech, "provocation" appears in contexts such as: "civilization so in the you know your question was uh how how do I think provocation for for the British to go to war they sent a small Fleet it was a very small Fleet you know there was just". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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civilization so in the you know your question was uh how how do I think

provocation for for the British to go to war they sent a small Fleet it was a very small Fleet you know there was just

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noun

The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something.

noun

Something that provokes; a provocative act.

“The Salzburg Festival stunned the musical world by hiring him to succeed the hallowed Herbert von Karajan, and Mr. Mortier spent the 1990s there scandalizing many of its tradition-minded, well-heeled opera patrons, the most notorious provocation being a production of Johann Strauss’s “Fledermaus” laced with cocaine and fornication and aimed at Austria’s far-right political forces.”

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