- present participle of precipitate.
precipitating
Example Sentences
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And the precipitating event for Trump’s change appears to have been a question-and-answer session with Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy in a Senate hearing this week.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026
That’s an omission bank industry groups saw as a loophole, precipitating the current fight over the Clarity Act.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Maybe there will be no precipitating incident, no crackdown, no threat to America’s First Amendment tradition.
From Salon ● May 30, 2024
Rumours of financial trouble sparked a run on deposits in 2022, precipitating the firm's implosion and exposing Bankman-Fried's crimes.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024
Yet Milagro was a town whose citizens had a penchant not only for going crazy, but also for precipitating miracles.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
