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  1. Sep 1, 2020 · A provocateur is someone who provokes. Not all use of "provocateur" is political (except perhaps in a very broad definition): The Guardian recently quoted Richard Saltoun describing the performance artist Ulay as follows: Ulay was the freest of spirits – a pioneer and provocateur with a radically and historically unique oeuvre.

  2. Personally, I think per denotes that there is only one thing per category-thing. By denotes that there are multiple things and can be sorted by each category-thing. I also feel like "By Country" is a phrase that is used much more commonly than "Per Country" but that depends on the usage and context. Usually I name my relational database tables ...

  3. Jan 7, 2016 · DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. noun. 1.a person who expresses a contentious opinion in order to provoke debate or test the strength of the opposing arguments. An alternative definition, and more appropriate to a friendly debate is: Someone who takes the other side of the argument purely for the sake of argument.

  4. Jan 28, 2021 · Fleabag: You know that feeling when a guy sends you a text at two o'clock on a Tuesday night asking if he can come and find you and you've accidentally made it out like you've just got in yourself so you have to get out of bed, drink half a bottle of wine, get in the shower, shave everything, dig out some Agent Provocateur business, suspender belt the whole bit and wait by the door til the buzzer goes?

  5. former means you had the job before but don't anymore. retired is a work related status change. Though to retire you had to have the job before (former). But you should add what you found "that retired and former are synonymous" so as to not cover what you already know. – user3169.

  6. Dec 9, 2015 · The singular should be used: They live in another dimension. or possibly. They live in other dimensions. We live in a four dimensional universe: up/down, left/right, forward/backward, and time, that is our reality (as we know it today).

  7. Mar 31, 2018 · @chrylis I haven't seen this term applied to something restricted to internal political struggles. If it's been applied this way, it is a metaphor that might not be applicable to a specific situation, because depending on the country you are talking about, the political situation might be such that the term might be misunderstood to mean exactly an intervention by another country.