provoke
verb (used with object)
to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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We'll pray that by the time the cameras go down, those who make the decisions, the American legislators, will have been touched, that we will have provoked their conscience to respond positively.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2024