triggering 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of triggeringnext
as in provoking

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triggering

2 of 2

verb

present participle of trigger
as in activating
to cause to function mold triggers my allergies

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for triggering
  1. provoking
  2. activating
  3. inflammatory
  4. sparking
  5. explosive
  6. driving
  7. incendiary
  8. generating
Adjective
  • Her work is technically amazing, thought provoking and has tons of heart.
    Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
  • His creative licensing with my performance, always thought provoking and precise with his 'on point' direction for my performance as Regan.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2023
Definition of provoking
Verb
  • As the majority of the staff evacuated, Smith and a handful of employees remained and raced around the property activating snow guns.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Criticism triggers the sympathetic nervous system, activating the fight-flight-freeze response—our brain’s natural survival mechanism.
    Jason Walker, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of activating
Adjective
  • Inflammation: Chronic inflammatory conditions can affect how your body uses or stores iron, leading to low circulating ferritin levels.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
  • While these are currently used to treat inflammatory disorders, one was evaluated as a treatment for atherosclerosis – and may have incidentally provided evidence to back up its use in reducing heart scarring.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of inflammatory
Verb
  • Then, Hong Kong stocks dropped on Thursday, ending a 6-day winning streak and sparking fears that China’s stimulus rally could have started to fizzle out.
    Anniek Bao,Sonia Heng, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In the movie, the mother considers rebelling against the patriarch when a young daughter falls ill and needs medical treatment, sparking an urgent need to come out of isolation.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of sparking
Adjective
  • But a month shy of Election Day in 2022, an explosive Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury report appeared in several media outlets three days before it was supposed to be public.
    Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Micaela Hanning, Crean Lutheran: The transfer from Calvary Chapel is an explosive point guard who can strike from the perimeter and drive to the basket.
    Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of explosive
Verb
  • The driving rats project has opened new and unexpected doors in my behavioral neuroscience research lab.
    Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Modern cars have almost unilaterally replaced dashboards full of tactile knobs with sleek, iPad-like digital displays, despite concerns these alluring devices might be making distracted driving worse.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of driving
Adjective
  • Three ballots were damaged after an incendiary device was found inside a ballot box in Portland, Oregon, on Monday.
    Layla Ferris, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The New York Times reported that all three incendiary devices had the pro-Gaza message written on them.
    Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of incendiary
Verb
  • Despite generating petabytes of data daily, the lack of semantics—meaningful interpretation that AI can provide—limits its value.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The problem, then, is that generative AI knows how to write discourses perfectly without generating disturbances.
    Juan Isaza, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of generating
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