trigger
Example Sentences
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Unusually intense monsoon rains pummelled parts of South and Southeast Asia in November and December, triggering landslides and floods from Indonesia's rainforests to highland plantations in Sri Lanka.
From Barron's
The company admitted the incident "shouldn't have happened" and work was being done now to improve safety triggers and guardrails that should have stopped the language in Monday's news alert.
From BBC
And so we left behind any possibility of a problem that would trigger Section 122.
Environmental changes driven by climate change may be triggering processes that increase carbon release.
From Science Daily
The AI report triggered a selloff in at-risk stocks, impacting cryptocurrencies sensitive to broader economic forces.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
