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Discover LudwigThe phrase "prompt a debate" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to initiate or stimulate a discussion or argument about a particular topic. Example: The controversial topic of gun control is sure to prompt a heated debate among politicians and citizens alike.
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Any grand casino project would, inevitably, prompt a debate about taxation.
If we don't prompt a debate about what it means to be radical, that would be a shame too.
Many of them may be unlikely to be adopted, but the authors hope at least to prompt a debate about ways to address the dysfunction they see.
The strictly descriptive labels suggests that the organizers' purpose was not to prompt a debate about this confrontation of Renaissance men with the early past.
The Save Grassroots Football e-petition requires 100,000 signatures to prompt a debate in the Commons but has under 23,000 names, with one month remaining.
Fahy's solution is the wrong one, but he is right to prompt a debate about what needs to be done for people who are failing to cope.
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The decision prompted a debate outside the White House as well.
In the process, it prompted a debate between Justices John Paul Stevens and Clarence Thomas.
The article prompted a debate within critical circles.
Both adverts have prompted a debate on "inspiration porn".
News of the firings prompted a debate over journalistic ethics here.
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