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triggers

verb as in cause to happen

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The release triggers a roughly five-month clock in which local governments must accept public input on the new maps, officially adopt them and begin applying the heightened regulations.

Any prison sentence, whether immediate or suspended, triggers a recall petition.

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Kwame, who used the term "Nazis" in the argument, says the "derogatory" language he hears about people of colour "triggers" him.

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It is not cricket or politics that triggers the most ardent debate in Antigua and Barbuda.

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"It triggers me sometimes, and sometimes when I look at it, I don't see the shroud, I see what happened on that day."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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