- 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
About 66 million years ago, scientists believe, a city-size asteroid crashed into Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, precipitating a series of worldwide catastrophes: a massive earthquake, landslides, wildfires, tsunamis and temperatures reaching 700 degrees Fahrenheit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2025
The Japanese radar will look into the clouds, to determine how much water they are carrying and how that's precipitating as rain, hail and snow.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
To be clear, my departure was not the precipitating event.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
There they separated out 93 by repeating a tedious sequence of heating, evaporating, dissolving, precipitating, and centrifuging over three long days.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
