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as in causes
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)
a misguided pride prompted the family to refuse all offers of help
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as in urges
to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action
prompted the reluctant performer onto the stage with loud cheers and whistles
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Recent Examples of prompts
Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
This prompts the straw to start decomposing, ensuring the bales won’t overheat and burn your plants later.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
Black and his co-writers soften the cold mercenary side of Parker by giving him something of a moral compass, which prompts him to toss $10,000 to the stranger’s wife before fleeing the scene.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
The Dolphins took an all-time dispiriting L in their 2025 opener to the Indianapolis Colts, the kind that prompts a players-only meeting after Week 1.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
As much as his ability to hit from the right side, Johnson’s defense might be what prompts a decision to start him in Game 1.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
The meeting was convened after Estonia requested consultations under Article 4, a mechanism that prompts urgent talks among allies.
—Matthew Bodner, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
This prompts another philosophical debate between the Hermit siblings.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
The decline of Vivien’s first husband, who suffered from dementia, prompts a series of affairs—of convenience, passion, and revenge.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
The good news is that depending on how your prompts are worded, there is a solid chance that GPT-5 will select one of the GPT-5 submodels that will do a bang-up job of answering your prompt.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
The mistake tortures them, which prompts the couple to try and solve the mystery by producing a fake play in an attempt to get their ex-neighbor Mary (Chloe Cherry) to audition.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
This prompts the straw to start decomposing, ensuring the bales won’t overheat and burn your plants later.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
Black and his co-writers soften the cold mercenary side of Parker by giving him something of a moral compass, which prompts him to toss $10,000 to the stranger’s wife before fleeing the scene.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
The Dolphins took an all-time dispiriting L in their 2025 opener to the Indianapolis Colts, the kind that prompts a players-only meeting after Week 1.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
As much as his ability to hit from the right side, Johnson’s defense might be what prompts a decision to start him in Game 1.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
The meeting was convened after Estonia requested consultations under Article 4, a mechanism that prompts urgent talks among allies.
—Matthew Bodner, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
This prompts another philosophical debate between the Hermit siblings.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
The decline of Vivien’s first husband, who suffered from dementia, prompts a series of affairs—of convenience, passion, and revenge.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prompts
Verb
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What causes hair thinning in menopause?—
Korin Miller,
Flow Space,
1 Oct. 2025
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Olive oil may benefit people with inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune condition that causes joint pain, swelling, and inflammation.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The Full Moon in Aries will highlight home and family dynamics, and urges you to release outdated patterns of control or resentment that might be keeping you from feeling fully happy.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
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His insubordination is so appalling that Stella urges Pascal to remove him from Firehouse 51.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There are also instructions for plenty of creepy cocktails and even craft projects for constructing kooky table decor to match.—
Jillian Sederholm,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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The pamphlet offered instructions for how to acoustically recognize an incoming threat and how to determine whether the source is machine-gun fire, artillery fire, rocket launchers, or an air raid.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Rolling or folding one end of the towel creates a slight angle for the brushes to dry on.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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Updating colleagues on the Dragon Bravo Fire during a meeting of the Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Program in late August, Grand Canyon Superintendent Ed Keable said rebuilding the lodge creates an opportunity to keep it open all year.—
Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Avoid over feeding plants, which encourages foliage to grow at the expense of blooms.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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Guadagnino encourages our doubts, shooting Maggie in exaggerated horror-movie closeups set to the doomy bass notes and shrieking winds of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Now he’ll be nearly immortalized, with a car in his name and lots of reminders, on and in that car, of his existence.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
3 Oct. 2025
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Others want to create a personalized information panel that combines weather, reminders, to-do lists, and even news.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Limestone parent material generally generates alkaline (high pH) soils whereas granites generate more acidic soil.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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The engine — Subaru’s signature smooth, horizontally opposed four-cylinder — generates 180 horsepower and 178 pound-feet of torque.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Tye, the Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus, used these observations to update models involving the cosmological constant, a concept introduced by Albert Einstein over a century ago.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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The observations detected a puzzling event as the planet transitioned from a steady accretion rate in April and May to a burst of growth between June and August.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Prompts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prompts. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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