precipitating
- present participle of precipitate.
Example Sentences
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And the precipitating event for Trump’s change appears to have been a question-and-answer session with Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy in a Senate hearing this week.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026
Another possibility: Tech investment gets ahead of demand, precipitating a bust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
But, in 2022, rumours of financial trouble sparked a run on its deposits, precipitating the firm's implosion and exposing Bankman-Fried's crimes.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024
To be clear, my departure was not the precipitating event.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
There they separated out 93 by repeating a tedious sequence of heating, evaporating, dissolving, precipitating, and centrifuging over three long days.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
