Synonyms for instigation
ˌɪn stɪˈgeɪ ʃənin·sti·ga·tion

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1. abetment, abettal, instigationnoun

   the verbal act of urging on

   Synonyms:
   abetment, abettal, fomentation

2. fomentation, instigationnoun

   deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord)

   Synonyms:
   abetment, abettal, fomentation

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1. • Encouragement
   • Trigger

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1. instigationnoun

   Synonyms:
   incitement, urgency, encouragement, prompting, influence, solicitation, instance, importunity

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1. List of paraphrases for "instigation":

   incitement, instigating, behest, enticement, initiative, inducement

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1. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi:

   The Philippines' stubbornness is clearly the result of behind-the-scene instigation and political manipulation.

2. Guy Fieri:

   I don’t like him making fun of people, and I don’t like him talking sh**, and he’s never talked shi** to my face. I know he’s definitely gotta have issues, ’cos the average person doesn’t behave that way. 'It’s not that I’m not open to the reality that the food world was like this from a few people’s perspective. It’s just, What are you doing? What is your instigation? You have nothing else to f***ing worry about than if I have bleached hair or not? I mean, f**k.

3. De Luca:

   You accuse me of incitement, let me meet, look in the face of someone I have incited, that way I know what he has done at my instigation. The crime is incitement in the abstract, it corresponds to nothing.

4. Edward Alsworth Ross:

   During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power...