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precipitate

[pri-sip-i-teyt, pri-sip-i-tit, -teyt] / prɪˈsɪp ɪˌteɪt, prɪˈsɪp ɪ tɪt, -ˌteɪt /


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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

Precipitate, unresisting, are the day in the train and the heedless night. 

From Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

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

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles

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.

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




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