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“Medicaid asset and income thresholds can prompt families to reassess their plans,” the law firm adds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Forecasters expect humidity levels will increase by Saturday, which could limit nighttime cooling and combine with warm temperatures to prompt another round of heat advisories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Subtle variations in the prompt can produce different answers.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
"The company or individual would have to be at least reckless," he said, explaining they would "be substantially certain the crime would occur and build or prompt the system anyway."
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
These credentials are meant to help workers prove they have skills like devising effective prompts or using AI for business strategy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
AI agents -- systems that act autonomously to complete tasks rather than just responding to step-by-step prompts in a chatbot -- are hailed across the industry as the next chapter in AI.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Amy Dowden's family history prompts 'rollercoaster of emotions'
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Anthropic’s effective ban on Claude answering prompts that include the word “pathogen” has created challenges for employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Hello, ma’am? Can you tell me your issue?” the woman on the phone prompts again.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
The prompter is his devoted executive officer, Maj.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
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
At one point I thought the prompter was wrong and it wasn’t.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
But, at the rehearsal, il Signor Rouladini, who claimed to know the play by heart, did not know even his own lines, and repeatedly turned to the prompter.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
The day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Those who had almost broken out into open mutiny, now rendered the promptest obedience to every order.
From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Duke, Basil Wilson
“My clerk,” said Pidcock; and this is the promptest thing I can remember of the Major, always excepting his conduct when the firing began on the hill.
From Red Men and White by Remington, Frederic
The striking features of the site’s humanoid figures have prompted a wholesale rethinking of what historians thought they knew about the origins of Chinese civilization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
In a joint statement released on 7 August, Lima and Mexico City said "historic ties of brotherhood, friendship and cooperation" prompted the reconciliation.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The airport shutdown also prompted a cargo plane to abandon its planned landing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Lionel Richie seems to be moving past the unspecified health issue that prompted him to postpone a pair of shows on his summer tour with Earth, Wind & Fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Do you not recognize her in these pages?” von Linden prompted.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
The killing of Shakur, also known as 2Pac, is one of America's most celebrated cold cases, prompting endless debate among music fans over who did it and why.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
A spate of drone sightings in European airspace last year left the continent on high alert, prompting the EU to discuss a continent-wide "drone wall" of air defences.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Tests revealed she had severe anemia, prompting a life-saving blood transfusion from another eagle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The announcement came alongside a second-quarter report showing growth across the business, prompting Etsy to raise its outlook for annual gross merchandise sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
At the organization’s prompting, a tenant had made a stand.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Vocabulary lists containing prompt
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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