Instigate and Plan

Instigate

Instigate verb - To bring (something volatile or intense) into being.

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Plan and instigate are semantically related. in influence topic. In some cases you can use "Plan" instead a verb "Instigate".

Plan verb - To work out the details of (something) in advance.

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Instigate and plan are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Instigate" instead a verb "Plan".

Nearby Words: plant, planned, planed, planner, planing

operation	instigate operation	plan operation
time	instigate time	plan time
coup	instigate coup	plan coup
revolution	instigate revolution	plan revolution
Other words: battle, invasion, rebellion, rescue, war, events.

Hence, her plan to instigate the Great Hinamizawa Disaster and kill the two thousand residents of Onigafuchi.

Source: Analysis / Higurashi: When They Cry
Then gets played with at the end of the novel as Mara believes that Formbi couldn't have come up with the plan to instigate a Chiss-Vagaari war on his own.

Source: Literature / Outbound Flight
When they attempt to instigate their plan, he brushes them off, lets them know why he hates their guts, and makes their leader the third person in the series to be killed.

Source: Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work

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