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Meanings of provoke in English
Synonyms
Examples for "harry"
Examples for "harry"
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Last year saw Harry increasingly focus on the issue of climate change.
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Just ask the body language expert: Harry knew what he was doing.
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The family talk about the donors who help Harry to be healthy.
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So in January this year, the MP Harry Cohen refined Mahon's question.
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Martins said, 'The police have implicated Harry in a very serious racket.
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Venice, Italy: exhumation and study of plague victims; plague; public health measures
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That's taking the whole 'plague' thing a bit far, in my opinion.
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Crime -particularly violent crime -is a plague on South Africa.
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Local authorities used the plague as an opportunity to reshape the city.
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The history and modern state of the plague vaccine development are described.
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News reports detail a recovery beset by delays, bureaucracy, and political friction.
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Italy is beset by growing joblessness as the economic crisis bites hard.
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Iran's centrifuge-based enrichment programme is rather primitive and beset by technical problems.
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The Kennedy family, an American political dynasty, has been beset by tragedy.
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It is beset with problems of diagnosis and difficulties in assessing treatment.
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The plane would then chevy it, or even swoop upon its back.
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Matt Albright's unmarked blue Chevy passed Gretchen's car going the opposite way.
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The interior is shockingly nice, especially if you're used to often-lackluster Chevys.
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The Chevy brand made up 71 percent of U.S. sales last year.
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Both Chevy-branded small cars are set to go on sale in 2010.
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Winner: Virtual Boy Writing Columns iPad: Possible, but kind of a hassle.
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It's just way too detail oriented and too much of a hassle.
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But in general that's just too much hassle in an urbanised society.
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Families might well wonder if it is worth the hassle next time.
5
Months of planning and hassle for a few minutes before a preacher.
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I don't want to harass you with medical questions, I said, blushing.
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The men did different things each time they came to harass us.
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You accomplish singularly little to harass M. de Mar in his love-making.
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She doesn't want to steal anything, she just wants to harass us.
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In the first three years, only once did a guide harass me.
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I would be unable to molest you even if I wanted to.
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No one will molest us here, and you are in my power.
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The Yankees shall not destroy this plantation or molest you and Marion.
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No further attempt was made to molest the cabin or its inmates.
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Nor did they molest any one who entered or left the house.
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He sort of dithered about and you had to chivvy him along.'
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Up the steps. A constable swung his baton to chivvy us along.
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To skedivvy was to chivvy and skedaddle-itsauthority not difficult to guess.
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Dizzy didn't have the heart to chivvy her along any further.
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The natives will chivvy you off if you try to land.
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We're saved if we can chivy Laputa till morning.
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Do you suppose I'm going to chivy Jimmy about without doing anything to help him?
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Before he could reply, if he meant to, Mrs. James came out to chivy us inside.
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I let the first class off easily, but the second I chivy through a whole year.
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It was an eternal game of chivy or hide-and-seek, each person being by turn the hunter and the hunted.
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The tires on Florence's old Chevvy will fit the Model-A.
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Heading the row of cars that face us over the crossing is a '60 Chevvy.
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In cosmopolitan Jeddah Mr Amin has led a comfortable life, with a swimming pool and a Chevvy Caprice car.
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The Chevvy powered jet boat is self-righting and perfect for the person who likes to take a bit of a risk in… Audio
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The Chevvy dug around in a smoking half-circle, straight pipes racketing, and suddenly the clapboard side of The Cavalier was swelling, swelling, swelling and
Usage of provoke in English
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But such measures are only likely to provoke further violence, said Hanif.
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African Union peacekeepers said the attack was intended to provoke return fire.
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Unfortunately, hooks's statements provoke, without creating space for difference or substantive debate.
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He wondered how soon the invasion would provoke fresh forms of violence.
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Economic collapse will provoke sharp differences between parties and dramatic government action.
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Any attempt to avoid legislation could well provoke a further legal challenge.
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No doubt these 'beggars' were communist agitators trying to provoke an incident.
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Ukraine's interim president says Russia is trying to provoke Ukraine into war.
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Few ventured to meet him in debate, and none to provoke him.
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It meant that now the al-Qaeda desire was to provoke sectarian violence.
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Or was he looking for a new way to provoke the Kremlin?
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Previous research suggests that choices of decreasing value should provoke decreasing anxiety.
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The large scale unwinding of pair trades can provoke severe market volatility.
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It could provoke more violence and catch more civilians in the crossfire.
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Thus the same letter could provoke all shades of the political spectrum.
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Those factors could provoke relapses in workers recovering from addiction, they said.
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