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But, in 2022, rumours of financial trouble sparked a run on its deposits, precipitating the firm's implosion and exposing Bankman-Fried's crimes.

Maybe there will be no precipitating incident, no crackdown, no threat to America’s First Amendment tradition.

The Japanese radar will look into the clouds, to determine how much water they are carrying and how that's precipitating as rain, hail and snow.

Within two years, the Islamic State had taken over tranches of western Iraq and a year later, much of Iraq’s north, as well as precipitating a four-year war that cost tens of thousands of lives.

To be clear, my departure was not the precipitating event.