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precipitated

verb

past tense of precipitate

as in poured

to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds the air mass was dry, as much of the moisture had precipitated out on the other side of the mountains

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Recent Examples of precipitated Their letter precipitated the launch of the Manhattan Project and, six years later, the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. — Michael Posner, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Rethink Trade director Lori Wallach cautioned against viewing the first-half 2025-to-2026 contraction in the deficit as an all-out win, given that there were special circumstances that precipitated it. — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 6 Aug. 2026 Investigators are probing their relationship to the victim and what precipitated the attack. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026 Several books about the coal wars have gone on to be published, and journalist Robert Shogan’s The Battle of Blair Mountain (2004) is considered a major secondary source on the events that precipitated the conflict. — Elijah Tanall, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026 Still, no punches thrown from his direction on the way out, beyond the social-media trail that seemingly precipitated the Friday fracas with Adebayo. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2026 Grave loss in Canada precipitated the Declaration of Independence, created with an eye to France and Spain as allies. — Sarah M.s. Pearsall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 Today, the life expectancy has more than doubled, from 35 to 79 years, and Washington would likely be treated with antibiotics, rather than bloodletting, for the throat infection that precipitated his death. — Stephanie Stephens, USA Today, 26 June 2026 The 2002 crash, which was caught on camera and precipitated the Forest Service’s reckoning and its modern airworthiness program, was caused by unidentified wing cracking. — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 9 June 2026

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Ever since Freestyle began popping up in restaurants and movie theaters, the dispensers have poured more than 67 billion 8-ounce servings of beverages; Coke has been able to track them all, thanks to the equipment’s real-time data collection.

— Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026
Tributes poured in for Wright over the weekend, highlighting his masterful performances playing often wounded, complex characters.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of poured

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So, Stop Sales rained down on mozzarella cheese, roasted onions, roasted garlic, roasted mushrooms (72 degrees) and Alfredo sauce (70 degrees).

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026
By February 2024, Israel had rained down destruction on Gaza, killing thousands of civilians including women and children, and destroying civilian infrastructure, earning censure from the international community.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 13 Aug. 2026

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As men, women and children flooded across the border between Morocco and Spain, into the autonomous city of Ceuta at the end of July, European populists and anti-immigrant politicians capitalized on the shocking images of human desperation.

— Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
And now, since Panettiere's death, fans have again flooded Neutrogena's social media.

— Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of flooded

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Teams of soldiers on Tuesday stormed Tambopata National Park, a spot in the Peruvian Amazon in the southeastern Madre de Dios region visited by an average of 40,000 tourists per year.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Phoenix reportedly stormed off the set of Haynes’ movie in July 2024 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026

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