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precipitate

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


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Servaas Storm, an economist closely following the AI sector at the Delft University of Technology, said the industry is already facing severe financial headwinds that could precipitate a panic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Still, buying more protection against potential credit risks won’t necessarily precipitate a slowdown in the AI build-out, according to Howard Mason, a financial analyst at Renaissance Macro Research.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Highly concentrated brines can keep phosphate dissolved in solution and can promote chemical reactions involving organic compounds and minerals that precipitate from solution.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Critics have also insisted that the deal could precipitate a nuclear race in a region already battered by war.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

A playful fall, or a nick in his skin—even a bumpy horse ride—could precipitate disaster.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I think what the Iran war basically does is it precipitates things like these, and it presents opportunities for some of the groups on the ground,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

By analyzing only 40 candidate compositions, the machine learning system identified an alloy design with a much higher proportion of small precipitates than previous attempts.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025

Microscopic imaging revealed a dense population of small precipitates, and the alloy remained stable at temperatures up to 400 degrees Celsius -- an unusually high threshold for aluminum-based materials.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025

Science fiction bursts at the seams with bizarre extinction scenarios, usually delivered from space, like the one that precipitates Carol’s irritating life turn.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

In Jane Austen novels, a death often precipitates the loss of a fortune, which propels the heroine to seek a husband.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

Whatever sense of invulnerability America may have had as the world’s only superpower was shattered, and it precipitated massive changes in the way we lived, traveled and perceived ourselves.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

The answer can be found at open dumping sites across Tangerang, including in the areas surrounding the actual landfill, which have precipitated the growth of noxious trash mountains within a hundred metres of people's homes.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Production ended on July 27, 1990 at a factory in Portugal, precipitated by tightening emission standards in Europe.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Sicily precipitated the eventual collision between Carthage and Rome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

The Montgomery bus boycott that precipitated these events, like the sympathetic action it prompted in Durham, shocked most whites.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Certainly, the Consols proved a better bet than the high-yielding South American bonds whose serial defaults played a precipitating role in the London credit crisis of 1825.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The book opens shortly after its precipitating event.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

Once in the oceans, of course, groundwater will never again be suitable for drinking and human use without expensive and energy-sucking treatment or through the natural cycle of evaporating and precipitating as rain.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2025

There they separated out 93 by repeating a tedious sequence of heating, evaporating, dissolving, precipitating, and centrifuging over three long days.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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