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Definition of Provokers
1. provoker [n] - See also: provoker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provokers
Literary usage of Provokers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas Biggs Harned, Horace Traubel, Oscar Lovell Triggs (1902)
"... not yourself—you and your Soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
In them themes, hints, provokers—if not, the whole earth has no themes, ..."
2. The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets by Vida Dutton Scudder (1895)
"... themes and hints and provokers: ' If uot, the whole earth has no themes or
hints or provokers, —» and never had.' " Many a thinker, on the other hand, ..."
3. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"Questions labeled as "thought provokers" can be used to stimulate discussions in
class; the banks of multiple-choice questions can be used for examination ..."
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