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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bring on
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The 2025 ceremony will air live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and will pay tribute to the city’s resilience amidst the devastation caused by January’s wildfires.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
22 Jan. 2025
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Fire investigators determined that that previous fire was caused by an electrical problem inside a wall.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
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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Once again Steven Baldwin brings Bieber and his Belieber daughter together—this time on the red carpet at the premiere of Bieber’s movie Never Say Never.—
Stacey Leasca,
Glamour,
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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By Clara Harter Los Angeles Times As buildings and brush continue to smolder in Los Angeles, a toxic soup of smoke, chemicals and particulate matter is being spread across the region by gusty winds, prompting a surge in interest in air purifying devices.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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In 2002, prompted by a personal need, Dimitri Lemonides conceptualized and developed PileMate, a durable, versatile sleeve that provides an all-year solution for boats, docks, and pilings.—
Lauren Carpenter,
USA TODAY,
18 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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Much of the change was brought about the California Legislature, which told UCSD, UCLA and UC Berkeley in 2021 to reduce international enrollment to make more room for students who are California residents.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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So, if customers won’t directly tell brands what’s wrong, what can those brands do to remedy the situation?—
Tom Lewis,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Some say that more and more match-goers have taken to spending the hours before games at the stadium and doing their drinking there, rather than in pubs.—
Hannah Ryan,
CNN,
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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The most rudimentary method is something anyone with a computer can do at home: asking a chatbot to produce many responses to a single question.—
Lauren Leffer,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Bring on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bring%20on. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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