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Discover LudwigThe phrase "apt to set off" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is likely to trigger or cause a reaction or event.
Example: "The sudden noise was apt to set off a panic among the crowd."
Alternatives: "likely to trigger" or "prone to cause".
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The mere mention of his name is apt to set off disagreements among even the best of friends.
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Want to set off fireworks?
radicals needed to set off the cascade.
We are so used to standing at the white cliffs (or at the port of New York) and waving to English-speaking writers as they set off for France to sign up for the avant garde - Joyce, Hemingway, Pound, HD, Beckett, and after the second world war, Baldwin, Wright and others - that we are apt to overlook the traffic coming the other way.
McClellan set off to confront them.
Once approved, I set off to work!
Set off to Church.
Stuck in unmoving traffic, Iraqis now are less apt to shut off their cars to allow them to cool off, and many say they are sleeping better.
It's relatively wide, so you're not apt to step off and tumble down the mountain.
So Masha sets off to find some.
He then sets off to forage.
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