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Six example sentences with precipitate, each labelled with its topic.
A single bank's collapse can precipitate a run on healthy institutions before regulators finish reading the first report.
Economics
Cold air can precipitate an asthma attack, which is why patients are told to breathe through a scarf outdoors.
Medicine
Clearing the hillside precipitated the mudslide that closed the coast road for the whole of the following spring.
Environment
The minister's resignation precipitated a general election that nobody in the party had planned for.
Politics
One rumor about the fund's holdings precipitated a wave of withdrawals before the manager could even respond.
Finance
Losing the largest customer precipitated the layoffs, which the founders had hoped to delay until spring.
Startups
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Found in 12 published word lists
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- Science Word ListAuthoritative
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)Recognized
- Magoosh GRE 1000Recognized
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE WordsRecognized
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- PrepScholar 357 GRE WordsRecognized
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