trigger
Example Sentences
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As the stolen material builds up, it can ignite in a runaway nuclear reaction, triggering a sudden brightening in the sky.
From Science Daily
The scene from 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark shows Indiana Jones - played by Harrison Ford - outrunning a giant boulder triggered by a booby trap, before leaping to safety.
From BBC
Such movements tend to trigger large and unpredictable shifts in Japanese overseas investment.
I’m of course referring to climate change, a topic embedded with some sort of Pavlovian trigger that immediately gets most people to tune out as soon as it is mentioned.
From Salon
Iran is no stranger to nationwide protests, but the latest demonstrations have not come close to the last major outbreak in 2022 triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman.
From Barron's
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