precipitate
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He’s credited with calling not just the spike in oil prices that helped precipitate the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, but also the oil glut that followed over the next decade.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
"But it's not to precipitate a full-blown societal or humanitarian collapse."
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
“A breakdown in negotiations could precipitate flows into safe-haven assets like gold,” the CEO said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
On 4 December, 2024, Yoon announced to the nation that he was declaring martial law – plunging South Korea into chaos and setting in motion a series of events that would precipitate his downfall.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
“This is enough for me,” he wrote Rush, adding that he knew Adams to be “always an honest man, often a great one, but sometimes incorrect and precipitate in his judgments.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing precipitate
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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