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trigger

Definition for trigger

verb as in cause to happen

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The entire run of “It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!” is visually designed to be “seizure safe,” since intense light sequences and patterns can sometimes trigger reactions.

The Rugby Football Union has no plans to pull a trigger.

From BBC

However, the current study also takes into account another consequence that is often not given enough attention: The smoke generated during the fires is an important trigger of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

By studying late-onset cases, Igdoura and his team uncovered that these diseases begin in the spinal cord, where chronic stress on a cellular component called the endoplasmic reticulum triggers programmed cell death.

Scientists have found a trigger for social learning in wild animals.

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

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