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"ref": "1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth",
"text": "Lechery, sir, it provokes and it unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery",
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"ref": "1987, William Safire, Freedom, page 758",
"text": "Then we'll just have to unprovoke him.",
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"ref": "2004, Adele Jinadu, Olatunde Oloko, Crisis of Democratization, Development and Electoral Violence in Nigeria",
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"text": "Volpone, in a desperate attempt to undo his own overreaching, to \"unprovoke\" his lawyer Voltore — \"When I provoked him, then I lost myself\" [5.11.22] — must falsify the brief and uncharacteristically true pleading of Voltore on the grounds he is possessed:",
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