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triggers
verb as in cause to happen
Weak matches
Example Sentences
She suggests mindfulness exercises to help us process the emotion before it triggers a response.
Once Easley learned to recognize the triggers, she says, their lives improved markedly.
Even though we have an African-American president, the topic of race is fraught with triggers, as Ferguson shows.
Whenever I complete a trip, it triggers an IFTTT recipe that I have created and sends the resulting data to a note in Evernote.
But a series of misunderstandings triggers an all-out war between man and ape, threatening the future of mankind.
We stood with our guns to our shoulders, and our fingers on the triggers.
Both pistols had hair triggers, but Broderick's was more delicately set than Terry's, so much so that a jar might discharge it.
He heard more shots fired, but evidently random triggers only had been pulled, as no bullet struck near him.
Both had wooden shoulder-stocks, and wooden fore-pieces; they had long tubes extending to the front, and triggers like blasters.
In an instant I had pulled both triggers, and both barrels had sent forth their united and deadly showers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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