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prompt

[prompt] / prɒmpt /






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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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