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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

A new crisis, however, quickly put an end to exchanges, precipitating the mass incarceration of prisoners that marked the last two years of the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Rumours of financial trouble sparked a run on deposits in 2022, precipitating the firm's implosion and exposing Bankman-Fried's crimes.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 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