- present participle of precipitate.
precipitating
Example Sentences
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And the precipitating event for Trump’s change appears to have been a question-and-answer session with Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy in a Senate hearing this week.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026
A new crisis, however, quickly put an end to exchanges, precipitating the mass incarceration of prisoners that marked the last two years of the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
But, in 2022, rumours of financial trouble sparked a run on its deposits, precipitating the firm's implosion and exposing Bankman-Fried's crimes.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024
Maybe there will be no precipitating incident, no crackdown, no threat to America’s First Amendment tradition.
From Salon ● May 30, 2024
Yet Milagro was a town whose citizens had a penchant not only for going crazy, but also for precipitating miracles.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
