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prompt

[prompt] / prɒmpt /






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The realization that he is merely a tool of the Romans thus seemed to prompt Farnace’s return to the family fold.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Fleeing L.A. could prompt “a talent bleed-out,” Klowden said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

With prompt and appropriate medical care, maternal health experts say, women should not die.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

They may have recognized that participation could prompt questions or conversations about Sept. 11 that they had not previously had or did not wish to have.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

He’s typing in a command, pressing his thumb to the screen for print recognition, speaking a string of letters and numbers in response to a prompt.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

But repeated prompts led the bot to rank products in a shopping cart based on the reliability of such labels, with Sparky calling its earlier rebuff “overly cautious.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

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

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

These models don’t make decisions; they carry out millions of probability calculations and pick the best one to answer the prompts they’re given.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

It leaves instruction to districts and teachers, with optional discussion prompts for 10th grade world history and senior-year American democracy classes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

“Is there any way you went hear things you never hear before?” she prompts.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

“Now they’re back safely in their joke holes, doing what they do best: making my prompter word screen full of good and haha.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2023

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

From New York Times Jul. 21, 2021

A few illustrations will suffice: A man in public company wishing to give utterance to some particular opinion or sentiment, invariably finds the pipe or the pinch the best prompter.

From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Henry James Meller

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

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

"Certainly not," says Peggotty, with the promptest decision.

From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Charles Dickens

It was simply wonderful; and he resolved that, if hard work and the promptest possible attention to duty could render him worthy of such good-fortune, neither of these things should be lacking.

From Campmates A Story of the Plains by Kirk Munroe

That shifting logic has prompted two participating villages to voluntarily introduce hunting bans since the project started, added Nardiyono.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

When UroA activated the NLRP6 inflammasome in intestinal epithelial cells, it prompted the release of appropriate levels of molecules involved in normal intestinal function.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

The bankruptcy also dealt them a major financial setback, which ultimately prompted them to pivot.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

What prompted you to go back into the vault and revive “Trixies”?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

The conversation with Red Corn, though, prompted me to probe more deeply into perhaps the most puzzling of the Osage murder cases—that of Charles Whitehorn.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Unlike the 2019 GPT-2 paper, this fearmongering has broken through in a remarkable way, prompting the public to panic over stories about programmed “agents” from the aforementioned firms hacking into other companies’ infrastructure.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2026

Clinics and medspas, promising people transformational weight loss, are procuring and selling an experimental drug that hasn’t gotten through government approval, prompting serious safety concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

A federal judge in Oakland temporarily blocked the deal, prompting Paramount to agree not to finalize the acquisition until after a trial or June 1, whichever comes first.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Vitamin D deficiency is also frequently reported among people with breast cancer, prompting researchers to investigate whether low levels might affect pain following surgery.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

At his prompting, I sketched out the room, with the door at the top of the page and the window at the bottom.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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