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verb

present tense third-person singular of prompt
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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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prompts

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noun

plural of prompt
as in instructions

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Recent Examples of prompts
Verb
The episode opens with Riley sitting at his work desk, and something prompts him to look for Ray Biller. — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 Continue reading … QUARANTINE WATCH — Mystery death at Russian plague lab prompts US precautions as questions swirl. — FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026 That peptide mimicked the human hormone GLP-1, which prompts the pancreas to release insulin and makes people feel full. — Dr. Bowman Heiden, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026 The sugar, found in most mammals but not in humans, prompts the antibodies that trigger an allergic reaction. — Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026 This is particularly important because AI models quickly become familiar with how a user prompts the model and interprets its output, and the model presents information according to these patterns. — Monideepa Tarafdar, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026 Immediately after installation, Avira prompts you to run a Smart Scan. — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026 Without structural boundaries, these role prompts override machine‑awareness. — Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026 The series of hurricanes comes as the weather phenomenon El Niño prompts major environmental shifts across the world, fueling drought in some areas and flooding in others. — Megan Janetsky, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
Noun
Build the customer profile that makes your prompts convert, create the ban list that keeps your voice intact, set up the master prompt that produces publish-ready content, repurpose your best ideas across platforms, and batch your month in a single session. — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prompts
  1. causes
  2. urges
  3. instructions
  4. creates
  5. encourages
  6. reminders
  7. generates
  8. observations
Verb
  • Yet in September, Bangladesh reported a daily average of 1,198 new cases of measles, which causes a high fever, cough and telltale rash.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The organization’s focus areas are education, jobs and livelihood, and health—causes she’s cared about deeply since childhood.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of causes
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  • Vision is ready to hare off after Thomas at that point, but Jarvis urges him to control his emotions.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Brem urges you to advocate for yourself at the doctor's office.
    — Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of urges
Noun
  • Three days before the test, a hospital administrator from Southampton Hospital called to confirm the appointment and review the preparation instructions.
    — Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Instead, the test showed how a human could direct a semi-autonomous platform while its software handled the details of executing instructions.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of instructions
Verb
  • To see how this spread creates randomness throughout the world, consider an ordinary coin-flip experiment again.
    — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Republican president signed an executive order that creates a new women’s health division at the National Institutes of Health and a White House task force to focus on the issue.
    — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of creates
Verb
  • Applied to a solo outing, that approach encourages diners to appreciate the meal in front of them instead of scrolling through their phones.
    — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Jordan says a recent guideline change encourages doctors to diagnose and treat sooner based on symptoms.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of encourages
Noun
  • Accounts of injuries, even fatalities, are reminders that beneath the mystery of a bog’s soft ground lies real danger.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Amazon launched two new AI gadgets on Thursday that the company says can listen to conversations, compose notes and issue reminders.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of reminders
Verb
  • This process, which generates perfectly crystalline silicon ingots to be sliced like fragile metallic salamis into thin wafers, is entrusted largely to one firm in Taiwan and two in Japan.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Boasting about 24 flagships across countries, Ecoalf generates about 30 percent of its revenues from retail and 24 percent from e-commerce.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of generates
Noun
  • To get to the bottom of the mystery of the article’s spurious dating, Cade and a team of researchers from around the globe sifted through historic reports and observations of geomagnetic activity to set the record straight.
    — Mike McRae October 15, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026
  • And, based on my observations, some platform algorithms have forced very specific types of creator content formats, producing a formulaic product.
    — William Daddi, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of observations

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“Prompts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prompts. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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