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This was just two of the fellas out there fishing, and Newsom said it with barely any prompt.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
Gen. Rob Bonta says he’s willing to negotiate with Paramount over concessions that would prompt him to drop the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
But these economists worry that a rate hike could cause a sharp cut in economic activity, which could prompt businesses to let go of workers and ultimately lead to a recession.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
With prompt and appropriate medical care, maternal health experts say, women should not die.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
“That question doesn’t quite prompt scientific investigation! Keep searching the world around you for a valid question!”
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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But repeated prompts led the bot to rank products in a shopping cart based on the reliability of such labels, with Sparky calling its earlier rebuff “overly cautious.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Apps like Midjourney or Veo 3 are dedicated to creating images or video from simple text prompts.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
These models don’t make decisions; they carry out millions of probability calculations and pick the best one to answer the prompts they’re given.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
A party gone spectacularly wrong gets a laugh, a sinister figure at the window prompts a scream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Wen was soon talking without prompts from Pete about his giant China, about the provinces, and poverty, the backwardness of people and leaders.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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What I had was a prompter, which I’m so grateful they gave me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
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
Then, reading off a prompter in the back of the room, Biden turned his attention to the first soccer player honored as a Medal of Freedom recipient.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022
Nevertheless some little disappointment was felt by those who had hoped for a prompter solution.
From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 by Various
The day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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Consequently a tradition concerning messengers is current among the gentry; they hold that the promptest and surest post never can replace them.
From Iermola by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
Many of one’s promptest acquiescences are revised as one meets and eats with the ruling class later on.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
The president did not identify a specific report that prompted the decision.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
The repeated blackouts have prompted rare protests in Cuba, where unauthorised demonstrations are illegal and those who defy the ban risk being jailed.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Analyst Roger Samuel thinks that rising power-purchase agreement prices probably prompted dual-listed Infratil to upgrade its target operating fleet at Boston-based Longroad to 14.3 gigawatts from 11.5 GW.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
That shifting logic has prompted two participating villages to voluntarily introduce hunting bans since the project started, added Nardiyono.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
“In this instance I am not prompted by curiosity; I act on the part of Lord Godalming, who wishes to know something of the property which was, he understood, lately for sale.”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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But a similar property in the complex was already on the market and wasn’t selling, prompting him to hold off on listing his.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Some bank executives also remain skeptical that agentic payments will take over soon, especially with mounting AI safety concerns about rogue agents prompting talks of a slowdown by hyperscalers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Bonta canceled a session last month after prelimary details and ground rules leaked, prompting him to accuse Paramount of “playing games” by violating a confidentiality agreement and spreading misinformation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Unlike the 2019 GPT-2 paper, this fearmongering has broken through in a remarkable way, prompting the public to panic over stories about programmed “agents” from the aforementioned firms hacking into other companies’ infrastructure.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
A small window appeared in the center of the screen, prompting me for a maintenance-tech ID number and access password.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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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