Collocations for "trigger"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "trigger" in context.
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trigger
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- trigger the [alarm, sprinklers]
- triggers [my asthma, his allergies, a migraine, a rash]
- [can, may] trigger the [symptoms, disease]
- triggered by [stress, poor diet]
- triggered to [produce, release, send]
- triggered the [development, creation, invention] of
- trigger the [collapse, destruction] of the [company, organization, empire, government]
- [thought, said, believed] to have triggered the [collapse]
- the [crisis, violence] was triggered by
- trigger an [avalanche, explosion]
- triggered a [backlash, uprising]
- trigger a [series, chain, sequence] of
- triggered the events that led to
- triggered my [interest, memory, desire]
- [thing, movie, scene, word] that triggers me
- [pull, release, press] the trigger
- the trigger [caught, jammed, snapped]
- the trigger of a [gun, shotgun, rifle, revolver]
- the catch on a trigger
- a trigger for the [fight, argument, conflict, strike]
- can be a trigger for [some people, epilepsy, asthma, anxiety]
- quick on the trigger
- [a gambling, an epileptic] trigger
- [identify, detect, predict] triggers
- avoid the triggers (of)
- [is, feels] trigger happy
- a trigger [mechanism, point, value]
- have an itchy trigger finger
- [suffer from, treated her] trigger finger
'trigger' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):