incited; inciting
: to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on
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Examples of incite in a Sentence
The news incited widespread fear and paranoia.
the rock band's failure to show up incited a riot, as the crowd had waited for hours
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Advertisement Carlson described Epps as a principal in a false flag operation in which the government incited the Jan. 6 riot, an unfounded conspiracy theory.
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Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
Chief among that cohort is Joel (Jeff Hiller), her best friend and closest confidant — though, in this third season, his still-blooming relationship with boyfriend Brad (Tim Bagley) incites some tension between him and a slightly jealous Sam, who’s morbidly afraid of losing him.
—Samantha Allen, Them, 20 Nov. 2024
Sign up All this follows a summer in which hate speech laws were repeatedly in the spotlight, following the heavy sentences handed out to people convicted of inciting violence online in relation to the Southport riots.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 20 Nov. 2024
Trump left office in 2021 a pariah after inciting a mob of supporters to ransack the U.S. Capitol at the end of an attempt to overturn his electoral defeat.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 6 Nov. 2024
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Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
Chief among that cohort is Joel (Jeff Hiller), her best friend and closest confidant — though, in this third season, his still-blooming relationship with boyfriend Brad (Tim Bagley) incites some tension between him and a slightly jealous Sam, who’s morbidly afraid of losing him.
—Samantha Allen, Them, 20 Nov. 2024
Sign up All this follows a summer in which hate speech laws were repeatedly in the spotlight, following the heavy sentences handed out to people convicted of inciting violence online in relation to the Southport riots.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 20 Nov. 2024
Trump left office in 2021 a pariah after inciting a mob of supporters to ransack the U.S. Capitol at the end of an attempt to overturn his electoral defeat.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Incite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incite. Accessed 8 Dec. 2024.
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Medical Definition
incite
transitive verb
in·cite
in-ˈsīt 
incited; inciting
: to bring into being : induce to exist or occur
organisms that readily incited antibody formation
Legal Definition
incite
transitive verb
in·cite
in-ˈsīt
incited; inciting
: to urge on
incite a riot
incitement
noun
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