precipitate

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Precipitate those businesses leaving the state, even if they already hold a lot of their investment capital offshore.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2023

Of course he was not a good-tempered man, or he would not have justified his nickname of Red Precipitate, but he spared the rod with me, and failed to keep me in order.

From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.

Precipitate?" rejoined Haigh; "not a bit of it, amigo.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

Precipitate the second portion of the concentrated water, by the addition of nitrate of silver; wash the precipitate, dry it, and fuse it on a piece of foil platina, previously weighed.

From A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy by Accum, Friedrich Christian

But Precedent and Precipitate together frightened all objection out of most people.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles