trigger

If you abandon the deal, you trigger the taxes on the full gain right here, right now.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

It is Bezos's involvement that makes the deal so intriguing and will trigger speculation about the future plans of Liverpool's owners.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Prosecutors aren’t accusing him of pulling the trigger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Researchers found that smiles trigger distinctive activity in specific parts of the canine brain.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

The name seemed to trigger a reaction in the tackler.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Possible triggers include growing amounts of meltwater entering the ocean from polar regions as well as global warming itself.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Once the audience gets past their disorientation, the slapstick triggers enough silly goodwill that my auditorium squeezed out generous spurts of applause.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

It’s that saliva that triggers an immune response in humans—and makes us itch long after the mosquito has gone.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Georgia, West Virginia and South Carolina included triggers to mandate further reductions or policy changes when the state hits certain revenue targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Rahim Khan slowly uncrossed his legs and leaned against the bare wall in the wary, deliberate way of a man whose every movement triggers spikes of pain.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

This comes as record rainfall triggered by back-to-back storms caused widespread flooding and landslides in parts of China, Japan and the Philippines.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

The smoke hazard has triggered the evacuation of two Belgian villages, whose residents were still under instruction to stay away.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

The McClellan Oscillator, an indicator developed by McClellan’s parents, is the final criteria necessary to determine whether the Omen triggered or not.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

When Clacton's last by-election took place in 2014, it was triggered when the sitting MP Douglas Carswell quit the Conservatives to join Farage's old party UKIP.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner—the ones who’d triggered the Manhattan Project by convincing Albert Einstein to warn President Roosevelt of the danger of atomic bombs—came to watch.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

Many Flores residents have traumatic memories of another 7.7-magnitude quake that hit the island in 1992, triggering a tsunami and killing about 2,500.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Police are now probing how the thieves were able to enter the museum without triggering its alarms and who may have been responsible.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Nobody wants to be subjected to one more triggering, off-key note of an Edwin Díaz dirge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

In the past, North Korean missiles have flown over Japan, triggering sirens, smartphone alerts and special programming on television.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

“The triggering circuit,” Kadalyi said cheerfully, “isn’t attached. It remains with me. You see?”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick