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"press the trigger" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to indicate the action of activating a trigger mechanism, such as in a gun or a trap. It can also be used in a figurative sense to mean initiating or starting something. Example sentence: The hunter carefully aimed his rifle and pressed the trigger, releasing a loud shot into the quiet forest.
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Fit a tool, press the trigger and off you go.
It does not come from lack of confidence in his ability to press the trigger.
It's up to you to decide if, and when, to press the trigger.
"You press the trigger," he said, "and the inside lights up in all kinds of different colors".
If/when I press the trigger on my individual voluntary arrangement (IVA), in about a month's time I should be out in the light.
Point the remote at the television screen and press the trigger to fire a gun, swing the nunchuk down to open a door or swing it up to knock a table over to use as cover.
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As you press the triggers, the rest of the chair should start lifting upward.
"Without speaking a single word, he pressed the trigger".
Officer Rivera said he believed that his index finger had slipped during the struggle and pressed the trigger.
Then she pressed the trigger: the probes shot out and hit the man-target in the chest.
When someone presses the trigger, current flows up one rail, through the armature and down the second rail.
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