The phrase "almost triggering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or statement that nearly provokes a strong emotional response or recollection of a traumatic experience.
Example: "The movie had several scenes that were almost triggering for me, reminding me of past events I would rather forget."
Alternatives: "nearly provoking" or "borderline triggering".
Conflicting and confused news reports of a shooting incident in still-fraught Baltimore – including by Fox News – have been unambiguously contradicted by city police, causing a surreal scene on social media and cable TV and almost triggering a return to Monday's violence.
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One of their substitutes almost triggered a breakthrough.
UN chemical weapons inspectors in Syria are investigating seven cases of alleged chemical or biological weapons use, including three incidents around Damascus after the Aug. 21 attack which almost triggered US air strikes.
During the war, he commanded a Union infantry unit composed of free black and mixed-race soldiers from New Orleans; his brutal methods almost triggered a mutiny, and the unit disbanded.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average of leading American companies plunged to levels last seen in October 1998, after the Russian bond default almost triggered the collapse of the Long Term Capital Management hedge fund.
Every one of Musharraf's weaknesses was to be exploited, with this group looking back nine years to demand a public inquiry into the Kargil war of 1999, when Pakistani troops infiltrated India in a disastrous military incursion that almost triggered a nuclear conflict, before leading to morale-bruising retreat.
A second Korean War was almost triggered in August 1976 when North Korean soldiers killed two U.S. officers and wounded four Americans and four South Koreans who had been on a mission to trim a tree within the demilitarized zone that separates South and North Korea.
Ominously, America is now taking aim at Airbus, Boeing's European rival, in a repeat of the dispute over subsidies that almost triggered a trade war in 1992.With imports surging and exports on the slide, America's trade deficit is soaring.
A year ago, a deadly chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus almost triggered US military strikes.
Even then, the I-401, the squadron's flagship, refused to surrender, went rogue, and almost triggered a resumption of hostilities.
