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"provocative study" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a research project or paper that presents information that challenges existing ideas or beliefs. For example, "The authors of the provocative study argue that gender stereotypes are socially constructed, rather than innate."
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But it's an interesting and provocative study.
A small, provocative study seems to say so.
Griffin counters what she calls "the dark interpretation" of the industrial revolution in a provocative study.
It also includes a provocative study by Ruth Harris, one of the best living historians of this period.
The result is an "important and provocative" study, Ronald Spector wrote in the Book Review last year.
Highlighting… Griffin counters what she calls "the dark interpretation" of the industrial revolution in a provocative study.
Her last, "Hystories" (1997), was a fast-moving and provocative study of mass hysteria, among which she included such afflictions as alien abduction and gulf war syndrome.
This year's Dramatic Grand Jury Prize went to The Believer (pictured), a troubling, provocative study of American bigotry from writer-director Henry Bean.
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"We kept doing provocative studies that gathered dust," he recalls.
In provocative studies of five Victorians — some eminent, some merely notorious — Hughes addresses a "hole in the biographical text where arms, legs, breasts and bellies should have been".
Before his death in 2004, Leon Golub, a New York artist, painted small, provocative studies of anonymous, defenseless figures being beaten, tortured and mauled by dogs.
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