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However, a smaller fiscal action could prompt the Fed to do more, including slashing interest rates and potentially restarting its purchases of longer-dated U.S. debt, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Some people worry that too much regulation will just prompt students to party off campus, where the rules won’t apply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
In other words, the language of a prompt influenced the cultural assumptions underlying its response.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
When it comes to Halloween costumes, creatures are a time-tested crowd favorite, as well as a fairly open-ended prompt that can be left up to interpretation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
At least I don’t have to prompt every single line this time.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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"I have heard stories of some writers using AI prompts to do a first draft which I find shocking because I think... What are you paid for otherwise? What are you there to do?"
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The stand-up curriculum includes simple prompts to help them discover their unique points of view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Institute said it tested upward of 4,000 prompts on accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds, including tests before and after the release of ChatGPT for Teens in August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The new gene prompts the cells to produce CARs only when it reaches this intended location.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
As he sees the look of horror that this suggestion prompts, he quickly backtracks.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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It produced for one prompter a schematic of a jet engine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
To keep that rhythm, the prompter has to talk over the other actor’s lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Those accounts accused Harris of making use of the prompter to answer questions from the audience, asked in English and Spanish, causing Univision producers to set the record straight late Thursday night.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
I'd like to see how she performs more off the cuff and without an ability to read from the prompter.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
I am not always before the lamps, the gout is a very poor prompter.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
The day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Needed: "Additional and improved bombers, airborne alert, more missiles of existing types, speeded production of Polaris submarines, the promptest possible dispersal and hardening of bases, and a program for civil defense."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country."
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was a case that called for the promptest and humblest apologies from the human race, represented by his great-grandmother.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
For G. the image was clearest when the feeling of strain was least, and J. secured the promptest and clearest results when he could most nearly rid himself of anxiety as to the result.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
It is those attitudes among male athletes that prompted Keay to conduct an experiment in 2019.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The forecasts for sustained higher yields reflect a mix of improving growth, inflationary pressures that have prompted the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest rates and concerns about the U.S. fiscal trajectory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
A massive cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg from Taylor Farms de Mexico prompted recalls extending from Taco Bell kitchens to supermarket produce aisles.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
It prompted a response by the Roseville Fire Hazmat Task Force, and there were no reports of injuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
It was this nativist philosophy, bolstered by his fear and distrust of foreigners, that prompted Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to pursue policies that brought the Red Scare in America to a head in 1919.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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When “The Kelly Clarkson” show entered its fifth season in 2023, it began taping in New York City, prompting the singer and her two kids to move to the Big Apple.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Panetta said an envelope containing the powder was delivered to his Santa Cruz district office and opened by a staff member, prompting the office to be evacuated, with staff later cleared by medical personnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Thousands of demonstrators converged for a march through Paris, cutting main roads and prompting authorities to close many metro stations in the centre.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
In this week’s episode: U.S. tariff pressure is prompting countries to tighten their forced-labor rules, changes that could prove more durable than the tariffs themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Which is exactly what someone who lives in Washington Heights would say,” he said, prompting an irritated shush from Mr. Sayegh.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 1
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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