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trigger

verb as in cause to happen

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So if the media agency wants to pull the trigger, it’s a simple export or recreation for an actual activation.

From Digiday

The process of marketing a children’s magazine to parents You’ve got a really interesting set of purchase triggers that you go through.

From Digiday

Understanding your triggers means you can avoid them, but more importantly it means you can identify in advance when something might make you feel anxious—and therefore, you can recognize early on when you’re experiencing anxiety.

Here, the task force recommends that Congress potentially clarify a trigger for a transition to begin, rather than leaving it to the discretion of officials.

From Vox

If you find any resistance—meaning, you find a trigger point or any kind of stiffness in your temporalis—stop the movement and apply whatever pressure you’re comfortable with for 30 seconds to a minute.

One report has the AirAsia Airbus flying at a speed very close to what would trigger a low speed stall.

People felt that crossed all lines, and then it became a story, so there are tipping points that trigger a public response.

I was the one to trigger the detonator, and for that I take full responsibility.

Even private institutions, which most likely have less bureaucratic hurdles to deal with, have been slow to pull the trigger.

But witnesses say Muataz definitely was the shooter, and he even went so far as to apologize to Glick before pulling the trigger.

"I ordered you not to come," said Aspinall: "I can still pull a trigger, Sir," replied the man.

Not while I had the open prairie underfoot and the summer sky above, and hands to strike a blow or pull a trigger.

Every thicket will have its troop; every finger, for a hundred leagues round, will be on the trigger.

The gunner, who sits on the seat behind the gun, points it and pulls the trigger.

Inside the case was some sort of a trigger mechanism operated by a button on the outside.

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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to trigger, such as: bring about, cause, generate, produce, prompt, and provoke.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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