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

The fervid kiss of heaven lay Precipitate on wood and sea.

From Songs of the Mexican Seas by Miller, Joaquin

Purple of Cassius, or Cassius's Purple Precipitate, was discovered in 1683 by Cassius of Leyden.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

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 action of this kind prevents the troops being engaged in the most advantageous manner.

From Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 by Anonymous