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One client requires candidates to put their hands in the air while the interview prompt is being delivered to prove there’s no live typing going on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Those subagents perform the tasks employees prompt them for, such as tracking variances in a sales forecast and automatically sending an anomaly notification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
For India, however, sugar availability could improve next year if high prices prompt mills to divert less cane to ethanol.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Amnesty International described the Kafwaya's killing as "deeply alarming" and called for prompt, thorough and impartial investigations.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
But I've stopped talking, so she gives me another prompt.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
Students will then, on the same day, travel to the Broad for guided tours, discussions and writing prompts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
This prompts the question of whether we could just store more of this excess water for when we need it?
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Parents supervising a teen account would get daily notifications of time spent, prompts to review settings and the power to adjust school hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
That’s part of why he skips AI prompts to learn for himself.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
“The love potion?” she prompts, then rolls her eyes when she sees I have no idea what she’s talking about.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Those accounts accused Harris of making use of the prompter to answer questions from the audience, asked in English and Spanish, causing Univision producers to set the record straight late Thursday night.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
I'd like to see how she performs more off the cuff and without an ability to read from the prompter.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
Diesel even mocked the script rolling across the prompter that Universal had put together for the actor to read about the movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
At one point I thought the prompter was wrong and it wasn’t.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
She drilled the chorus, trained the dancers, coached the speakers, arranged the costumes, and during rehearsals, at any rate, was sometimes stage-manager, pianist, prompter, dancing mistress, Lord Chamberlain, and principal boy, all combined.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil
The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country."
From Time Magazine Archive
The day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Needed: "Additional and improved bombers, airborne alert, more missiles of existing types, speeded production of Polaris submarines, the promptest possible dispersal and hardening of bases, and a program for civil defense."
From Time Magazine Archive
I called for Hays, but he, the promptest of men, and his splendid regiment, could not be found.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
In politics Mr. Brady was a Democrat of the States-Rights school, yet he always maintained that it was the duty of the citizen to render the promptest obedience to the General Government.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe
Defensively, Giovanni Leoni and Conor Bradley are sidelined with long-term injuries and Joe Gomez's pre-season injury prompted Liverpool to bring in Araujo on loan from Barcelona.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Vardy spent last season with Cremonese after 13 years with Leicester City but relegation to Serie B prompted the Italian side to let the striker go.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The bills were prompted by the 2025 Eaton fire, which left thousands of homes contaminated with lead, some at levels hundreds of times what the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
But the presence of Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov prompted protests from European officials, who objected to appearing in a traditional "family photo" with him.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
It was this big talk, not the persistent southwesterly breeze, that had prompted New York editor Charles Anderson Dana to nickname Chicago “the Windy City.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Europe’s largest airline, Ryanair, said winter jet-fuel prices of $140 per barrel are prompting it to cut capacity.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
In July, Lefevre's office said the levy would not apply to retailers such as H&M or Zara, prompting some to say that the measure appeared to spare European companies.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Just days earlier, a woman drove off a nearby stretch of PCH, prompting a rescue effort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The killing of Shakur, also known as 2Pac, has been one of America's most celebrated cold cases, prompting endless debate among music fans over who did it and why.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
At the organization’s prompting, a tenant had made a stand.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 1
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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