triggered
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The film is a satire about an impending climate change apocalypse that’s triggered by the drilling operations of oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, played by Cruise, who looks nearly unrecognizable clad in prosthetics and greying hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Few react to the alert, beyond checking their phones to see what kind of threat triggered it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Then came Friday’s U.S. jobs report — which underwhelmed Wall Street, took the odds of a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in October below 20%, and triggered more swings in U.S. government bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
"Although these conditions are triggered by completely different events, they may ultimately disrupt the same fundamental biological systems and produce the similarly devastating exhaustion experienced by millions worldwide."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
In each situation his wires got triggered and he’d go off.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
