How to Use precipitate in a Sentence

precipitate

verb
Definition of precipitatenext
Synonyms for precipitatenext
  • The budget problem was precipitated by many unexpected costs.
  • Her death precipitated a family crisis.
  • Some salts of cyanide can precipitate out and build up as a kind of sediment.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2022
  • To save the industry from this threat the EU could dilute the CO2 emissions rules which precipitated the threat in the first place.
    — Neil Winton, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Back the Hawks on the moneyline and bet the over here as the Mavericks lack of defense will precipitate a high-scoring game.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
  • At no point in this speech, or anywhere else, does Biden state that sending tanks alone to Ukraine would precipitate a world war.
    — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2023
  • In its propensity to precipitate, Friday seemed similar to the first five days of May. Three of the month’s first five days saw rain.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
  • If the courts ruled against one of the new laws, and the government chose to ignore the ruling, that would precipitate a serious crisis.
    — Danna Harman, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2023
  • In the worst case, Putin could precipitate a wider war, and, in that scenario, the gargantuan fiscal cost would be the least of our problems.
    — The Editors, National Review, 19 May 2022
  • My panic might have been precipitated by notice of a hole in the back wall of the press box, courtesy of a previous foul ball.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 June 2023
  • The show depicts the events that precipitate a teenager’s suicide.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Mark Hoppus shares the sweet side of Blink-182 reunion story There’s even a sweet side to the story that precipitated this reunion.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 15 June 2023
  • Their top concern is that the central banks will raise rates too much and then precipitate a global recession.
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes, 23 May 2022
  • His son died in his absence, his wife divorced him, and Rake joined up with Nic, precipitating the events of Extraction.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 16 June 2023
  • But his unswerving support for the war has already helped precipitate a historic rupture in that space.
    — Peter Smith, ajc, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The crisis comes In the decade since this agreement was reached, there have been at least three factors that have precipitated a crisis in European launch.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Those comments precipitated the drop in rates, sent the U.S. dollar to its lowest level since August and pushed gold prices to a seven-month peak.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • When the bank’s customers started pulling their own funds amid a tech industry slump, the bank had to sell off its holdings at a loss, precipitating a bank run that destroyed it.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The storm had caused ammonia vapor to precipitate down to lower levels, perhaps for hundreds of years to come.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • That could precipitate a longer-lasting shift in how A-listers engage with crypto.
    — Brian Contrerasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • That was the moment when Strauss uttered the words that precipitated the uproar: Hamas are murderers.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • That is a long way from here and would certainly precipitate recession.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Carter later weighed in at a too-heavy 323 pounds and cramped up during Georgia’s pro day workouts, further precipitating his slide.
    — Mike Tanier, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But his links to Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary group, which took over a Russian city and began a march on Moscow in its brief mutiny, appeared to precipitate his fall from grace.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
  • On the other hand, Burks’ combine performance might precipitate a drop.
    — Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Styne said the new law will only precipitate the closure of more restaurants, which are still recovering from the pandemic and summer strikes.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Ukraine and its border territories are also not the only places that could precipitate the sort of direct conflict with Russia that the United States wants to avoid.
    — Karoun Demirjian, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Even brief episodes of binge-drinking can precipitate atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the heart rate increases and beats out of rhythm.
    — Jonathan Reiner, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The cuts were precipitated by belt-tightening at the German Culture Ministry, which co-finances the Berlinale.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2023
  • One event did not precipitate the other, but the throughline is impossible to ignore.
    — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024

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