excite controversy
Frequency: 5.84.5 per million words
to cause strong feelings of disagreement
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Examples (10)
- The artist's new work is designed to excite controversy.
- The Prime Minister's speech excited considerable controversy in the press.
- The decision to build the new motorway has excited much controversy among local residents.
- This new policy will undoubtedly excite controversy when it's announced.
- Publishing the sensitive documents was a move calculated to excite political controversy.
- His goal was simply to excite controversy and get noticed.
- The paper's radical thesis was bound to excite controversy within the scientific community.
- His latest column is exciting controversy for its views on immigration.
- A statement like that could easily excite controversy and should be avoided.
- Did the film director intend to excite so much controversy with his final scene?