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
But the film also makes clear just how these sites use algorithms and other techniques to bombard vulnerable users with irresistible and inflammatory content.
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Air Mail, 5 Apr. 2025
Both residents of Suffolk County, New York, Laurette and Jacque, were 56 and 61, respectively, and shared the same chronic inflammatory disease, sarcoidosis, which causes non-cancerous lumps called granulomas in internal organs.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025
In reality, the body’s inflammatory response to the virus makes people feel miserable.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2025
As someone with difficulty detoxing due to the MTHFR genetic mutation, my body went into a systemic inflammatory response that my doctor confirmed with bloodwork.
—Jessica Ourisman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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Air Mail, 5 Apr. 2025
Both residents of Suffolk County, New York, Laurette and Jacque, were 56 and 61, respectively, and shared the same chronic inflammatory disease, sarcoidosis, which causes non-cancerous lumps called granulomas in internal organs.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025
In reality, the body’s inflammatory response to the virus makes people feel miserable.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2025
As someone with difficulty detoxing due to the MTHFR genetic mutation, my body went into a systemic inflammatory response that my doctor confirmed with bloodwork.
—Jessica Ourisman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for inflammatory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflammatory
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By the end, some of the provocative moves with the rattling bone piles will likely fuel criticism from the usual close-minded detractors.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
12 Apr. 2025
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And while the notion that Lennon and Ono came to understand America through its television programming is provocative, too frequently the collage of grim news and glib ads leans toward the tritely ironic.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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And Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy but was then granted a full pardon by Trump, suggested protesting outside the Washington Field Office until Jensen was fired or Patel and Bongino took a meeting to discuss the issue.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
13 Apr. 2025
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Thomas Caldwell, a U.S. Navy veteran from Virginia, stood trial in 2022 alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes for seditious conspiracy.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
31 Mar. 2025
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Authorities previously alleged that in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 13, Cody Balmer, 38, scaled a wall outside Shapiro’s Harrisburg, Pa., mansion, smashed windows and threw homemade incendiary devices inside before entering himself.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Police allege Balmer broke into the southern wing of the residence, entering a room often used to entertain crowds and display art, and set a fire using a homemade incendiary device.—
Marc Levy,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Inflammatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflammatory. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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