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Recent Examples of jump-start Trump’s letter sparked talks The negotiations Saturday come after Trump wrote to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, trying to jump-start direct talks between Tehran and Washington. Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025 Their liberation came as France and the rest of Europe are trying to jump-start talks with Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear program. arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025 Recent experiments suggest that those sprays of water may have helped jump-start chemical reactions that produced the building blocks of life. Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025 If the jump-start came from microlightning in water sprays, rather than full-sized lightning strikes over water, Zare and his colleagues say that could solve the problem and give life to a new version of the old hypothesis. Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jump-start
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