triggered
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The coup ousting Suu Kyi also triggered a civil war in Myanmar, where she won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent campaign for democracy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The Independent reporter asked the president about fraud tip-off payments, which reportedly "triggered Trump".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Kenyan authorities say they didn’t expect him, but were nonetheless ready to handle the health scare triggered by his arrival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
We’re undergoing a new round of this coverage, triggered this time by a survey from Goldman Sachs titled “New Economics of Retirement: Making Every Dollar Saved Work Harder.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The most striking change in his personality was his volatility: good news triggered uncontained outbursts of joy, often extinguished only through increasingly acrobatic bouts of physical exercise, while bad news plunged him into inconsolable desolation.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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