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Rivers’s signing had provoked a freakout over NFL development—Is America’s quarterback shortage this bleak?—but there was something to be said about having someone who’d done this before, many times.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

She said the new law had provoked a "profound" public response.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2023

But what had provoked me to do them in the first place?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2022

Terodde felt Gikiewicz had provoked the home fans.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2022

It wasn’t an emotion he had much experience with—it didn’t fit him—and he knew it wasn’t really Thyon who had provoked it, but his own powerlessness to save Sarai.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor