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English word

trigger

C1Academic AWL-9Frequent NGSL-3
UK /ˈtrɪɡə(r)/US /ˈtrɪɡər/
noun

the part of a gun that you press in order to fire it

verb

to make something happen suddenly

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Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer | GDC 2005 Keynote
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In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is a true judgment of our work.

Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer

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A hundred-fold — a hundred-fold — of anything in time, cost, or energy savings that accelerated computing opened surely would trigger a new development somewhere else.

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(Applause) What I think it comes to is this: Al Gore spoke the other night about ecology and the revolution that was triggered by Rachel Carson.

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