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But in recent months, oil prices have continued to drive up the price of resin, the chemical substance Ambix uses in its products, helping to prompt a change in her outlook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
In addition, there are unforeseen circumstances that could prompt the use of Flex Alerts and rolling outages in limited areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Does he prompt a laugh that makes it hard to focus on ferreting out the mystery?
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
"To be clear, we did not use their prompts or proofs to prompt our models or direct our agents," Bubeck said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Would you like to tell the class a little something about the Dominican Republic?” the old nun prompts me.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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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
Diesel even mocked the script rolling across the prompter that Universal had put together for the actor to read about the movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
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
The prompter gave him the word he needed, and no one else paid any attention to this out-break.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
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 day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.
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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He was conscientiously convinced that, all things considered, it was the promptest and most feasible process of re-establishing civil government in the insurrectionary States.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
Auguste, magnificently tall and magnificently bearded, having now followed her in, the four sacramental hand-shakes were accomplished, Eugenia's this time the promptest of all.
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
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
The incident that prompted her to quit flying — and turn down more offers to stay aloft — happened in a fixed-wing plane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The bankruptcy also dealt them a major financial setback, which ultimately prompted them to pivot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Nicola Ryan-Donnelly, partner at Fletchers Solicitors, which represents 22 of the 23 surviving children, called for the government to launch an independent investigation to address the "grim, voyeuristic culture" that prompted the data breach.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Our decision to reestablish picketing is prompted by the highest patriotic motives,” Paul said, arguing that the most patriotic thing women could do was to fight for inclusion in the democratic process.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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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
Clinics and medspas, promising people transformational weight loss, are procuring and selling an experimental drug that hasn’t gotten through government approval, prompting serious safety concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
A federal judge in Oakland temporarily blocked the deal, prompting Paramount to agree not to finalize the acquisition until after a trial or June 1, whichever comes first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Age gaps in digital literacy are a global concern, yet the gulf has widened massively in the hyper-connected and fast-ageing country, prompting national campaigns to bridge it.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Scoob’s elbow throbs almost like it’s prompting him to speak up.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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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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