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[trig-er] / ˈtrɪg ər /


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“Tight distillate markets, reduced refined-product availability and uncertainty around Middle East shipping continue to support prices, but any evidence of stronger supply flows can quickly trigger profit-taking,” says Naeem Aslam from Zaye Capital Markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Additionally, it could trigger a 15-to-23-basis-points increase to core inflation, which excludes food and energy, the Barclays economists said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Other Iraqis wonder whether the U.S. withdrawal will trigger a repeat of 2014, when Iraqi forces melted away in disarray.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

When heat and sunlight react with airborne emissions from wildfires, vehicles and industry, they create ground-level ozone pollution, which can damage lung tissue, cause breathing problems, trigger asthma attacks and lead to other health issues.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

It told a particular story about the victim and said nothing about the cop who’d pulled the trigger.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Even moving something from one box to another triggers a brief encounter with the past.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

It activates dopamine, the neurotransmitter in the brain that triggers a feeling of relaxation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

"Our industry can be crushed" if a court win for TikTok triggers "unbridled" AI voice cloning on social media, actor Bin Shimada told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Oracle can defer payments until the power comes on, but that triggers an automatic extension of the duration of its lease, meaning that the ultimate amount it pays to Stack wouldn’t decline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The dusty smell of the place triggers a bunch of memories.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

That triggered some irate phone calls to the institute’s outside general counsel, George Foote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

They said because the listing by Which? was not "live" on its site across the two months it was present, "some of our automatic fraud controls were not triggered to completely remove the closed listing".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Like several other industrial groups, Legrand is riding a wave of demand triggered by a global race to build data centers to power the computing needs of AI labs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The tragedy triggered some of Serbia's largest protests since the fall of Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, at times drawing hundreds of thousands.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

It lay dormant, hidden inside the very DNA of a Glitcher until it was triggered by a Glitch platform in ways I still didn’t completely understand.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

In effect, the measure would allow the governor and the Legislature to put more money into budget reserves, creating another option to avoid triggering rebates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The compound acts on a specific amino acid within the protein, triggering a pathway associated with cardiovascular benefits.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

The worst-case scenario would be that something cracks in the AI story, triggering a notable pullback, she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

But a change of address meant he missed a court summons, triggering a deportation order that ICE agents noticed.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

That Great Leap Forward poses two major unresolved questions, regarding its triggering cause and its geographic location.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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