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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

The progress of events in France was precipitating the crisis.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

Perhaps even now she was precipitating a duel between them.

From A Sappho of Green Springs by Harte, Bret

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