as in to cause
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)
this legislation will surely bring on some unintended consequences
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Recent Examples of bring on
The gallery brought on the Rosemarie Mayer estate through friends and years of familiarity with Max Warsh.
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Maddie Klett, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Freddie had the bright idea to bring on Tommy Baldwin.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
Apple is facing a separate case brought on behalf of app developers over its App Store commissions, while Google, Meta META.O and Amazon AMZN.O are also fighting high-value mass lawsuits in Britain.
—Sam Tobin, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
Per the chart below, the pullback has in the first few days of 2025 has taken the stock out of a channel of higher highs brought on by a post-earnings bull gap from September.
—Schaeffer's Investment Research, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Maddie Klett, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Freddie had the bright idea to bring on Tommy Baldwin.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
Apple is facing a separate case brought on behalf of app developers over its App Store commissions, while Google, Meta META.O and Amazon AMZN.O are also fighting high-value mass lawsuits in Britain.
—Sam Tobin, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
Per the chart below, the pullback has in the first few days of 2025 has taken the stock out of a channel of higher highs brought on by a post-earnings bull gap from September.
—Schaeffer's Investment Research, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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The ancient volcanoes in that area, situated around the center of Pangaea, oozed and belched greenhouse gases in pulses over 600,000 years, covering roughly three million square miles in volcanic rock and causing sharp climate swings between hot and cold.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Jan. 2025
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There is a real wild card factor this year with the L.A. wildfires having caused the Academy to extend the voting deadline twice, giving voters five full extra days.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
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The third season is once again created, written and directed by Mike White, with producers including White, David Bernad and Mark Kamine.—
Matt Minton,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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The city of Indianapolis created a position within the Office of Public Health and Safety to focus on preventing youth violence.—
Arika Herron,
Axios,
27 Jan. 2025
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Such cases bring home the importance of mutually respectful communication when making such requests.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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If the webpage includes a video, Viewer will bring it to the forefront while still giving you access to playback controls (Picture in Picture included).—
Brenda Stolyar,
WIRED,
21 Jan. 2025
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City staffers were directed to prepare a financial plan that would set aside tax revenue generated by commercial activities at El Corazon and use that money only to develop and maintain parks within the property, instead of spending the cash citywide as part of the general fund.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2025
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Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.—
Keith Caulfield,
Billboard,
26 Jan. 2025
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That crash and a second fatal collision that involved two Apache helicopters in Alaska prompted the Army to ground all aviation except flights on critical missions.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC News,
31 Jan. 2025
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The crash prompted a large search-and-rescue operation in the cold water.—
Ashley Mahoney,
Axios,
30 Jan. 2025
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Furthermore, complicating Boeing's condition are changes in the world economy brought about by the COVID-19 epidemic.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Entering midlife can bring about many change—some expected, others less so.—
Jennifer Shanker,
Flow Space,
16 Jan. 2025
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So what exactly has Trump and his administration done around immigration?—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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But so does the pressure to make something happen — in this instance, getting Mason to his first baseball game.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
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Similar to trying to dominate the first page of a search engine, some organizations may try to optimize and manipulate the information that AI accesses to produce its outputs.—
Kimberly Afonso,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Returning recipients include Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, which commissions work from artists and supplies them with the space and resources to produce it, and Houston’s DiverseWorks, which supports experimental performance.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
23 Jan. 2025
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