Caused
Precipitated and caused are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Precipitated" instead a verb "Caused".
Precipitated
Caused and precipitated are semantically related. You can use "Caused" instead a verb "Precipitated".
Both words in one sentence
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BattleTanx features a massive nuclear war which was actually precipitated by something more horrible, a plague which wiped out 99.9% of the female population, with the war being caused by the fight over the surviving women.
Source: World War III -
Corporal Hicks in Aliens becomes able to authorize a nuclear attack thanks to alien-caused attrition in the higher ranks, though the company lieutenant was only wounded, not killed, in an incident precipitated by his own ineptitude.
Source: You Are in Command Now -
You Are in Command Now / Still the Leader: Corporal Hicks becomes able to authorize a nuclear attack thanks to alien-caused attrition in the higher ranks, though the company lieutenant was only wounded, not killed, in an incident precipitated by his own ineptitude.
Source: Film / Aliens
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