triggered

Example Sentences

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Coupled with shortages of food and medicine, the situation has triggered rare public dissent in the form of street protests.

From BBC

This earthquake was triggered by a strike-slip fault, where two large sections of the Earth's crust move horizontally past each other along a vertical fracture.

From Science Daily

However, the hit the economy took from job losses and the credit crunch triggered massive bond buying and a historic selloff in stocks.

From Barron's

Numbers were once even greater - after a devastating famine in the mid-1990s triggered what rights groups described as a silent exodus over a more porous border with China.

From BBC

Last month, the launch of Claude Code Security triggered a similar reaction after the tool proved it could find and fix complex bugs faster than human experts.

From MarketWatch