Rising seas linked to climate change are triggering chronic inland flooding in many parts of the world.
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Triggering
Synonyms for "triggering" (42 found)
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Noun(6 words)
Adjective(3 words)
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Adjective(2 words)
driving actionemotional distress
Verb(1 words)
Related words (21)
Verb(3 words)
Noun(17 words)
more triggerprecipitantpromptprovocativeprovokepush a switchrelay activationset offsignal cuesparkstartstartingstartupstimulatingstimulusswitch actuationtripping
Adjective(1 words)
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14 entriesalarm activationemotional flashbackhardware bootinsensitive remarklatch activationloud noisememory recallprocess initiationsensor activationsoftware startupsystem starttriggering memorytriggering sceneuncomfortable topic
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13 entriesalarm activationmemory recallprocess initiationsensor activationsoftware startupsystem activationtriggering cuetriggering eventtriggering factortriggering mechanismtriggering memorytriggering stimulustriggering topic
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Yanni's dog ran on Skura's property, triggering her alarm.
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The World Food Program is warning the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine threatens severe food shortages and acute hunger there, and risks triggering a global surge in hunger and malnutrition.
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Physicists call these doomsday scenarios ridiculous. They say cosmic rays have been bombarding the earth and triggering collisions similar to those planned for the collider, since the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago.
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