triggered
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The film is a satire about an impending climate change apocalypse that’s triggered by the drilling operations of oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, played by Cruise, who looks nearly unrecognizable clad in prosthetics and greying hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The trauma of that fateful day has never gone away and Lee believes it triggered anxiety.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Then came Friday’s U.S. jobs report — which underwhelmed Wall Street, took the odds of a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in October below 20%, and triggered more swings in U.S. government bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Instead, failure is usually triggered by the movement of vortices, tiny regions where magnetic flux can pass through the material.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Gregor froze every time a pebble moved beneath his foot, thinking he had triggered another rat assault.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
