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[prompt] / prɒmpt /






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"Major rainfall flooding may prompt many evacuations and rescues," the NWS said, adding that rivers and tributaries "may rapidly overflow their banks in multiple places".

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh has moved away from telling markets what would prompt the central bank’s next move.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Pope Leo XIV was "deeply saddened" and "raises his prayers to the Lord for the prompt recovery of those affected by this tragedy," the Vatican said Tuesday.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

The software also sends reminder emails and phone alerts to prompt people to keep up with categorizing transactions that are automatically pulled in or inputting new ones manually.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Winter is an inimical world; its punishment for doing things wrong is sure and prompt: death from cold or death from hunger.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Wiener’s campaign said the chatbot was created with “strict guardrails” and designed to ignore controversial and malicious prompts and pivot back to Chan’s policy record.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

That’s part of why he skips AI prompts to learn for himself.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

Palantir’s partners are seeking control over their data, prompts, and business intelligence that “the language labs are not only ready and willing, but structurally designed to capture from their customers,” Karp writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Companies also needed to be much more precise with their prompts, says Rob Steele, CFO at UK accounting software firm iplicit.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

As he sees the look of horror that this suggestion prompts, he quickly backtracks.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

To keep that rhythm, the prompter has to talk over the other actor’s lines.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 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

And this is literally live on TV on Sunday with Finneas and the prompter just threw me off.

From New York Times Apr. 8, 2022

A few illustrations will suffice: A man in public company wishing to give utterance to some particular opinion or sentiment, invariably finds the pipe or the pinch the best prompter.

From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Henry James Meller

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

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

The day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, if ever, was the time for his promptest action, and with Winn thought and action went hand in hand.

From Raftmates A Story of the Great River by Kirk Munroe

It seemed as if nothing but the promptest dash to the spot could save him; it seemed, too, as if he had caught sight of me at the window, for he beckoned.

From The Five Jars by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

It prompted further resignations and another reported wave of roughly 75,000 digital cancellations in two days.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

The fundraising prompted a sharp decline in tech stocks across Asia, dragging the Nikkei down 0.5%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped 1.9%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The arrests as well as the death of Kafwaya prompted calls from rights groups and the Law Association of Zambia for an independent investigations.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

That observation prompted her to investigate the sharks' visual system more closely.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

Even with scripts, the kids playing Julie and Chet had to be prompted several times.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

The number was astronomic compared with those featured in previous IPOs, prompting some skepticism on Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

The joiner says he tried all the available treatments for his condition, with none working and therefore prompting him to try a trial.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

The fire started Aug. 9 in the Los Padres National Forest southeast of the Loma Vista neighborhood, quickly scorching 400 acres and prompting evacuation orders, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

Once he might have tweeted that he deserved a commission given the government’s role in prompting the sale.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

He had been posed so often that he seemed to know what was wanted of him when the press corps buzzed around, prompting the reporters to dub him “Movie Star.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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