precipitating

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This is the most we’ll see of the drama’s precipitating event.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

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

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

Unable to glide smoothly through capillaries and veins, sickled red cells jammed into microscopic clots throughout the body, interrupting blood flow and precipitating the excruciating pain of a sickling crisis.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee