setting off
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Their tracking method allowed them to see the Cadillac was on the move, passing through toll booths and military checkpoints, but without setting off alarms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
A magnitude-7.7 earthquake jolted Panama on Friday, setting off panic in the capital city and warnings of dangerous tsunami waves.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Their movement disturbed the orbits of smaller objects, setting off catastrophic collisions and producing brief periods filled with large amounts of dust, similar to what astronomers now observe in extreme debris disks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
That has put the firm at a disadvantage to rivals that could pay top lawyers millions more, setting off a wave of departures that began with its star dealmaker Scott Barshay in 2016.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
In its crudest form, this exploitation of 'phasing’ could be demonstrated by setting off two pendulum metronomes at exactly the same time and precisely the same speed.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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