How to Use precipitate in a Sentence

precipitate

verb

• 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
• When heated, such as in a hot water heater, hard water can precipitate into mineral deposits and clog pipes, adds Dr. Davis, which explains the limescale in my shower and electric kettle.
  — Sophia Panych, Allure, 2 Apr. 2024
• Other economists are open to the possibility of AGI being developed in the foreseeable future, but argue that this still wouldn’t precipitate a collapse in employment.
  — Will Henshall, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024