instigative

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for instigative
Adjective
  • When faced with a provocative or forceful colleague, Judo executives don’t counter-punch.
    Stephen Miles, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Full Body is the most provocative and risqué game on this list, but also perhaps the most thrilling.
    Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • The ceremony came at a charged moment, coinciding with Columbia University canceling its graduation ceremony (and largely closing off its campus).
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 6 May 2024
  • Of course, genocide is a charged and redolent term, recalling the systematic precision of the Holocaust and the society-wide butchery of the Rwandan genocide.
    Kristina Hook, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2022
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“Instigative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instigative. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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