prompted
Example Sentences
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The announcement that John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, plans to run for an open seat in New York’s 12th Congressional District prompted The Atlantic to respond with a headline begging, “Please, Not Another Kennedy.”
From Salon
Yet anxiety has been building around growing redemption requests that recently prompted several private-credit funds to limit withdrawals.
From MarketWatch
The ground stop Friday rippled across the air-traffic system and prompted a scramble among passengers looking for alternate travel options.
Expectations of a longer-lasting increase in energy prices prompted investors this week to dial back expectations around Fed cuts this year, and longer-term interest rates rose.
That prompted public BDCs to sell off, and investors in private ones started to wonder if they were missing something.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
