Example Sentences

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In August, China’s market regulator drafted guidelines to regulate the medical aesthetics sector’s advertising practices, saying that they were prompting societal anxiety over people’s looks.

From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2021

The rationale in all cases was that the benefits were prompting workers to stay home instead of taking advantage of a recovering job market.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2021

He noted how overpopulation and the sweep of reckless human activities were prompting a “great die‑off” of species at an unprecedented rate.

From Nature • Jan. 27, 2020

A Harvard-educated philosopher and the author of dozens of books, he entered the field of bioethics in the 1960s, when dizzying advances in medical science were prompting dilemmas previously undreamed of.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2019

I continued to work, wondering what motives were prompting him.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright