Sample Sentences for
precipitate
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precipitate as in: a precipitate decision

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    The agency recommended against taking precipitate action.
    precipitate = sudden (without adequate thought)
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    He was not prone to rashness and precipitate action;  (source)
    precipitate = acting with great haste -- often without adequate thought
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    There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.  (source)
    precipitately = suddenly
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    They went with the churches, and you were left with the grey slow dawns and the precipitate nights as the only measurements of time.  (source)
    precipitate = quickly descending (getting dark fast)
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    Exit Estragon left, precipitately.  (source)
    precipitately = suddenly (acting with great haste)
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    I never see that nice girl without more and more regretting his precipitancy in throwing himself away upon a dairymaid, or whatever she may be.†  (source)
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    Crawford had been too precipitate.  (source)
    precipitate = acted too quickly
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    Yet all these changes were, in one sense, so fantastic and had been made so precipitately that it wasn't easy to regard them as likely to have any permanence.  (source)
    precipitately = with great haste
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    "I hope there will be no women besides our own party," Lady Bareacres said, after reflecting upon the invitation which had been made, and accepted with too much precipitancy.†  (source)
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    His downfall, too, will not be more precipitate than awkward.  (source)
    precipitate = sudden or fast
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    At that Mr. Heelas fled precipitately upstairs, and the rest of the chase is beyond his purview.  (source)
    precipitately = with great haste
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    Towards noon whales were raised; but so soon as the ship sailed down to them, they turned and fled with swift precipitancy; a disordered flight, as of Cleopatra's barges from Actium.†  (source)
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    Bottom line, the Feds are going to do nothing to precipitate this.†  (source)
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precipitate as in: it precipitated a revolution

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    She expressed concern that withdrawal of UN troops will precipitate chaos and tribal warfare.
    precipitate = cause suddenly
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    She discussed the crisis precipitated by the Russian revolution.
    precipitated = caused suddenly
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    it was a greater delight slyly to precipitate a fight amongst his mates  (source)
    precipitate = make something happen abruptly
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    Relentless physical abuse had precipitated most of the deaths.  (source)
    precipitated = caused
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    The precipitating event is invariably domestic: a dispute with girlfriends or parents.  (source)
    precipitating = triggering (thing that causes something else to suddenly happen)
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    THE FORWARD ROLL of the cosmogonic round precipitates the One into the many.†  (source)
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    It's the major source of water here, caught in windtraps and precipitators.†  (source)
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    I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean.  (source)
    precipitate = hurl
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    Halfway down, she looked back up at me, and I knew she was still wondering what exactly had precipitated this sudden acquiescence.  (source)
    precipitated = suddenly caused
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    Precipitating her way toward the sweet 'crete of the creek bottom like a black angel who has just had the shroud lines of her celestial parachute severed by the Almighty.†  (source)
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    During her entire stay there, he had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and precipitates the whole soul on a single point.†  (source)
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    ....include heat exchange filaments and salt precipitators.†  (source)
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    it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence.  (source)
    precipitate = lead to (make it happen quickly)
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