Set up
Set up verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
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Per Flavor Text of one such act (carried out in the east-coast region of fictional America), a hefty number of advanced scientific minions are to set up and trigger an earthquake device to... obliterate Nashville, for its being the place of origin of country music.
Source: Useful Notes / Nashville -
The whole thing was set up by alien puppetmasters outside of town to trigger the riot, who comment on how easy conquering Earth this way is.
Source: Ten Little Murder Victims -
It's made even worse by the fact Laura was the one who killed her, in a trigger-scent fueled Unstoppable Rage set up by Zander Rice.
Source: Orphan's Ordeal
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Trigger and Set up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/set_up/trigger
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