triggered
Example Sentences
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The contest was triggered after Mike Nesbitt announced he would step down as leader.
From BBC
Battered by an energy shock triggered by the Ukraine war, a manufacturing slump and weakening demand in the key Chinese market, the world's third-biggest economy shrank in both 2023 and 2024.
From Barron's
The region has already seen some early wildflower displays in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, probably triggered by rain last fall.
From Los Angeles Times
That downturn led to a dip in share prices among luxury-goods makers and triggered a raft of changes to executive and creative leadership last year at some of the industry’s top names.
Those books sometimes get written off just because they were so insanely popular and then triggered this huge wave of dystopian fiction, so everything tends to get lumped together.
From Salon
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