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[prompt] / prɒmpt /






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That FBI's public service announcement, external described ShinyHunters as "threat actors" who often "use their real or exaggerated claims of access to sensitive or personal information to prompt payment from victims".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

To qualify, projects must begin operations by end-2028, which could prompt construction to start by 1H 2027, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Lapointe's inquiry helped prompt a group of French researchers to identify the lake area as the center of a potential 11th known impact structure in Quebec at a 2024 meeting of the Meteoritical Society.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Typically, the sweltering season will prompt the Swedish singer-songwriter to do something new, like dye her hair black or switch up her personal style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

If you haven’t been charged with a crime, are you willing to risk the possibility that fighting the forfeiture might prompt the government to file criminal charges against you?

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Financial experts shared three prompts, which people can adjust to suit their own family, to jump-start a conversation with parents about their estate plans.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The deals between labels and AI music platforms — on which consumers can create full songs from text prompts — share a basic promise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

The challenge stems from the inability to know or predict the outputs of these extraordinarily complex generative systems once they’re given prompts to do things in the world plus access to the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Apps like Midjourney or Veo 3 are dedicated to creating images or video from simple text prompts.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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

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

Diesel even mocked the script rolling across the prompter that Universal had put together for the actor to read about the movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

He would read anything that was on the prompter, and he delivered the jokes really well.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021

The prompter, a big red-faced fellow with a bull's voice, just then roared, "Swing your partners!"

From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman

The day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.

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

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

Auguste, magnificently tall and magnificently bearded, having now followed her in, the four sacramental hand-shakes were accomplished, Eugenia's this time the promptest of all.

From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield

"I ask for the severest, promptest legal satisfaction."

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

That has prompted lawsuits from angry states, which collect billions of dollars in tax revenue from sports-betting platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

If you’re not prompted to name one, then ask to.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The app also prompted pushback from Amazon, which blocked Muse from shopping on the e-commerce site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

"The availability of data and footage has prompted a change in methodology," says Turner.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

I don't know what prompted me to turn on the television, but I'd been away from home for four days and hadn't seen any headlines.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Last October, another Hawker Hunter went down in the Big Sur area, prompting a rescue of the pilot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Two sources told the New York Times that Garces Perez fled in his car, prompting a short chase.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

The Financial Times reported on the transaction on Tuesday, prompting some analyst reactions in advance of the official announcement.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Diesel would pile up in Gulf Coast storage, prompting refineries to reduce run rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The horrors of Nazi eugenics inspired a cautionary tale, prompting a global reexamination of the ambitions that had spurred the effort.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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