Synonyms for provokes
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1. List of paraphrases for "provokes":

   raises, stirs, arouses, causes, raise

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1. State Antony Blinken:

   As China seeks to make sovereign land out of sandcastles and redraw maritime boundaries, it is eroding regional trust and undermining investor confidence, its behaviour threatens to set a new precedent whereby larger countries are free to intimidate smaller ones, and that provokes tensions, instability and can even lead to conflict.

2. State Antony Blinken:

   As China seeks to make sovereign land out of sandcastles and redraw maritime boundaries, it is eroding regional trust and undermining investor confidence, its behavior threatens to set a new precedent whereby larger countries are free to intimidate smaller ones, and that provokes tensions, instability and can even lead to conflict.

3. Pyotr Shkumatov:

   The golden youth are not popular, such behavior, from people who haven't earned a rouble and who still have milk drying on their upper lips, provokes hatred. The police need to see this through to the end.

4. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger:

   That is what provokes this entire incident, when the defendant provokes this incident, he loses the right to self-defense. You can not claim self-defense against a danger you create.

5. Barack Obama:

   I had hesitated on gay marriage, in part, because I thought civil unions would be sufficient, i was sensitive to the fact that -- for a lot of people -- that the word marriage is something that provokes very powerful traditions and religious beliefs.