- present participle of trigger.
triggering
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In 1950 communist forces from North Korea invaded South Korea, triggering a war that exacted a devastating human and political toll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
They can be programmed to attack harmful T cells without triggering the same problem of engineered T cells killing each other.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
It turned out that rich countries could borrow a lot more than many fiscally conservative economists believed without triggering the sort of crises that hit Greece and Argentina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Video games, says Wulf, are notoriously good at triggering nostalgia because gamers can "jump into the same environment".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
At the periphery, interstellar matter is compressed by the supernova shock wave, triggering new generations of cloud collapse and star formation.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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