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Fewer controllers working this summer could prompt the FAA to further slow the number of flights that can take off or land at one of the region’s busiest travel hubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Each Friday, Letterboxd posts a prompt on its X account asking users to reply with their last four films logged on the platform.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
It is the first conviction in Wales of "swatting" - a phenomenon that gets its name because such hoax calls in the US prompt Swat police units to be called in.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He didn’t consider what her experience might prompt her to do, to his own eventual detriment.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
That could have been enough to prompt him to bar Oppenheimer from his lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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One would identify tracks that are entirely generated by AI based on prompts or in which the lead vocals or key instrumental performances were generated by AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
This includes tracks generated "entirely" from AI prompts, as well as lead vocals and "key" instrumental tracks that are AI-generated, according to the statement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The company said users can also choose from presets and suggested prompts to "spark ideas", as well as sketch edits directly onto images.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
A crazed newscaster prompts his viewers to do a wild thing: open their windows and shout, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
“The love potion?” she prompts, then rolls her eyes when she sees I have no idea what she’s talking about.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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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
Then, reading off a prompter in the back of the room, Biden turned his attention to the first soccer player honored as a Medal of Freedom recipient.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022
He loses his place, when the treacherous prompter, whom he took to be his friend, slips into his situation, and finds it quite satisfactory.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
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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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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And not a moment lost the trumpeter, knowing that when Colonel Walwyn gave an order in such excited strain it meant promptest obedience.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
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 Canfield, Dorothy
The fire has prompted opposition figures, critical media and social media users to demand answers over possible negligence.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
These reserves prompted outrage from union leaders, who wanted these funds quickly applied to higher wages and new hires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
It may have lagged behind in AI, but that hasn’t prompted iPhone users to switch to Android devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
While 2014 may have prompted some people to sign up for the Games, it also looms over 2026.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Beowulf asked, which prompted a jumble of questions.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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The traditionally working class, northern sport of rugby league had never had a representative knighted in 130 years, prompting claims of snobbery.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Additionally, she suffered injuries from a car crash at age 14, prompting her parents to spend their life savings on plastic surgery as part of her recovery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
South Korea’s Kospi surged over 5.0%, prompting the Korean exchange to briefly suspend trade of the index’s stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Hungary's former foreign minister Peter Szijjarto, an ally of nationalist ex-leader Viktor Orban, announced his resignation as a lawmaker on Wednesday to work for Chinese electric-vehicle giant BYD, prompting conflict-of-interest accusations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Within minutes I was exhausted from the effort and had to sit down to rest, prompting a belly laugh from the Sherpa.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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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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