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[prompt] / prɒmpt /






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Sanctions on their own rarely prompt owners to quit the trade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

While the weather painted a chaotic picture, stories from Malibu residents were of neighbors coming together as a community in a way only the specter of disaster could prompt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics, wrote that he thinks the latest inflation data will prompt enough Fed policymakers to pivot to support the October and December option.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

In other words, the language of a prompt influenced the cultural assumptions underlying its response.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

But laboratory animals give more prompt results, and after the two years it was evident that this miticide was indeed a carcinogen.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Spotify, and its competitors like Apple Music and Amazon Music, are driving the trend in AI-assisted curation, allowing premium subscribers to automatically generate playlists through text prompts to fit a mood, vibe or occasion.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

However, it includes a suggested comment from policy officials "if the coverage prompts any questions at committee".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Institute said it tested upward of 4,000 prompts on accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds, including tests before and after the release of ChatGPT for Teens in August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Researchers posing as teenagers with San Francisco Bay Area-based accounts tested more than 4,000 prompts before and after the launch of ChatGPT for Teens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Tony’s not very bright, but he has a sort of clumsy tenderness that sometimes prompts him to give his mother a rough hug and plant a sticky kiss on her cheeks.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

It produced for one prompter a schematic of a jet engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

To keep that rhythm, the prompter has to talk over the other actor’s lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

Those accounts accused Harris of making use of the prompter to answer questions from the audience, asked in English and Spanish, causing Univision producers to set the record straight late Thursday night.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024

I'd like to see how she performs more off the cuff and without an ability to read from the prompter.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024

The Captain determined anyhow to act as prompter.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers

The day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Needed: "Additional and improved bombers, airborne alert, more missiles of existing types, speeded production of Polaris submarines, the promptest possible dispersal and hardening of bases, and a program for civil defense."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country."

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m the promptest grocery clerk you ever saw!” boasted Dock, perhaps to hide a little confusion, and bolster up his nerve.

From The Boy Scouts of Lenox by Frank V. Webster

I expressed the promptest credence, and she went on.

From Four Meetings by Henry James

Concerns about mirror life have prompted scientists to recommend restrictions on research intended to produce organisms capable of reproducing using mirror-image biological molecules.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

In a recent study by the nonprofit, researchers prompted AI models to describe their surroundings in two randomly labeled environments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Investors’ concern over France’s fiscal challenges and the risk that high oil prices could dent economic growth have prompted a search for safe haven investments, and U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

This family has endured tragedies — Josie’s sister died when she was very young, which prompted Josie’s father to leave the family — but Josie feels a kinship with Klara over her mother’s objections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Her cousin’s removal left Briony center stage—there was no sign yet of Robbie—and the way she was listened to, deferred to and gently prompted seemed at one with her new maturity.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Today, inflation remains elevated, albeit well below levels seen in 2022, prompting the Fed to hike its policy rate in September.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

However, China’s economy remains choppy, prompting consumers to keep to a tight budget.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

A shark that became a viral sensation after getting stuck in a South Korean canal returned hours after being coaxed out, authorities said on Thursday, prompting another attempt to guide it back to the sea.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Darren Gold, who is now board president, said Gonzales-Torres falsely accused him of shaking her, prompting a city investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

There was also apparently the threat of amputation, prompting Craig to fumble his way through various meals and homework sessions with his right arm tied behind his back.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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