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
In a city home to the world’s largest Jewish population outside Israel, Mamdani’s message has struck sharply different chords, galvanizing left-leaning activists while alarming many Jewish voters who view his words as inflammatory.
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Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2025
Therefore, the inflammatory process induced by skin injury is not all bad.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Last month, Novartis also partnered with Matchpoint Therapeutics in a collaboration valued at up to $1 billion to develop oral medicines for inflammatory diseases.
—Reuters, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
Tau is a protein that often spreads after inflammation in the brain, and women tend to have stronger inflammatory reactions than men.
—Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
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Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2025
Therefore, the inflammatory process induced by skin injury is not all bad.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Last month, Novartis also partnered with Matchpoint Therapeutics in a collaboration valued at up to $1 billion to develop oral medicines for inflammatory diseases.
—Reuters, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
Tau is a protein that often spreads after inflammation in the brain, and women tend to have stronger inflammatory reactions than men.
—Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflammatory
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One of the official accounts, @GovPressOffice, has seen nearly 1 billion impressions on X since those first provocative posts in June, per Newsom's campaign.—
Brittany Shepherd,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
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But Bugonia’s provocative premise doesn’t yield a sci-fi thriller.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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The people released from prison included Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced in 2023 to 18 years in prison.—
Erin Mansfield,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Hundreds of participants have been charged with crimes ranging from trespassing to assault and seditious conspiracy.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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French has a history of incendiary social media posts.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Oct. 2025
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But Sia filed her own documents on Tuesday, countering Bernad's claims as to her sobriety, questioning his own, and leveling a new, incendiary allegation.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Inflammatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflammatory. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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