precipitate
verb (used with object)
to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly.
was precipitating
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past progressiveof precipitate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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An official in northwestern Kaduna state warned insecurity had already hit crop yields and was "precipitating a food crisis".
From Reuters ● Jul. 15, 2021
Thus the whirlwind of pressure was precipitating some sort of reappraisal.
From Time Magazine Archive
No longer could he doubt than he was seeing miracles—that Nature was precipitating its shapes into the world without making use of the medium of parentage....
From A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
All energy and life were gone; we saw only a family struggling against fate, and yet clinging with a death-grapple to the system that was precipitating their ruin.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
It was precipitating upon the Administration issues on delicate and deeply important subjects at a critical period—issues involving the structure of the Government and the stability of our Federal system.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
