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The phrase "triggering gesture" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used in contexts where a specific action or movement elicits a response or reaction, often in psychological or behavioral discussions. Example: "The therapist noted that the triggering gesture of crossing arms often indicated defensiveness in her clients."
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He had used self-hypnosis to rid himself of headaches by employing his triggering gesture.
When he made his triggering gesture, he appeared visibly more relaxed and said he was very pleased with his hypnotic abilities.
His ability to use a triggering gesture to return back to the relaxed state demonstrated a good acceptance of a post-hypnotic suggestion.
He picked the triggering gesture of touching his right index finger to his right thumb that would remind him how to relax even when he is not in hypnosis.
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The latest focuses on a fish named Fins, who swims around his underwater world guided by your child's touchscreen gestures, triggering an animation whenever he encounters one of the yellow hotspots.
I prefer to see it as a relapse a wounded and wounding gesture, triggered by the galling emergence of Camilla Parker Bowles as the no-longer-unthinkable wife-in-waiting.
Anelka, who made the gesture on Saturday after scoring a goal for West Bromwich Albion in a match broadcast on French television, is being investigated by the Football Association and his gesture triggered a furious reaction in France.
This isn't about vintage or literal old-school flourishes; it's about true nostalgia, about an emotional evocation of the past that may be triggered by a gesture (feathered hair, a worn-in boot, a cut of a jean) but not contained by it.
In his 2009 bestseller The Slap, a single gesture triggered the meltdown of an entire suburban universe, and in this new collection of two decades' worth of short stories a wide variety of protagonists discover that their lives are just waiting to be ripped apart.
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