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
One key question is whether extinction events were triggered primarily by forces from space, such as meteor impacts, or by processes within Earth, including episodes of massive volcanic activity.
From Science Daily ● 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
Inevitably, this highly productive system of intensive agriculture triggered an immediate population explosion in Kyushu, where archaeologists have identified far more Yayoi sites than Jomon sites, even though the Jomon period lasted 14 times longer.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
