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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The police department antagonizes the black community here on an almost regular basis.
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The White House does not want to antagonize Beijing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Victor Amadeus could not afford to antagonize them too deeply, for fear of their power as a class.
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I cravenly agreed, simply in order not to antagonize and perhaps lose him.
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It was done to antagonize , not to amuse.
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Matt wasn't the sort of man to antagonize people.
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The slogans antagonized his customers and often got him into ideological hot water.
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This is effective not because it lowers serum potassium concentration but because it directly antagonizes the membrane depolarizing effect of hyperkalemia.
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You don't want to antagonize rich and powerful Emissaries, especially not on their own ship in deep space.