prompted

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That observation prompted the team to investigate the connection more deeply.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

It prompted the Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca to say the US is "probably not the right place to do the competition".

From BBC • May 9, 2026

The ego-shattering experience of giving birth in 2016 and raising a son prompted reflections about what men’s inner lives were really like, and she wanted to write about them.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

Thanks to WSJ subscriber Terry Milholland in Frisco, Tx., for the question that prompted this article.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

She and the twins had only learned how to swim at Abuelito’s insistence, which had been prompted by her father’s drowning.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez