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At the time, a law enforcement source told The Times that the condition of the actor’s vehicle suggested that a medical emergency had precipitated the crash.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2023

The team said they and the Australian had "mutually agreed" the split, but McLaren admitted they had precipitated the move.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2022

Contact attempts were abandoned in the 1990s, when officials and anthropologists were chastened by the lethal chain of events that the pacification of the Jarawa had precipitated.

From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2018

He did, however, plan to watch the track and field events in Rio this week, and he neither condemned nor condoned the recent doping scandals that had precipitated the ban on Russia’s team.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2016

And here it was, two years later more or less, and Joe Mondragon had precipitated a crisis, and Amarante Cordova had never been so excited in his life.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols