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Discover LudwigThe phrase "was the trigger" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to talk about something that caused a reaction or change. For example: Seeing the destruction the tornado wreaked on her town was the trigger that made her take action and join an environmental activism group.
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' That was the trigger.
What was the trigger?
This was the trigger.
The credit crisis was the trigger.
"I imagine this was the trigger," he said.
That was the trigger point for me, so to speak".
Lehman was the trigger for the most dangerous phase of the crisis.
Inspiration, then, fuelled by adventure, was the trigger for Darwin's lifelong commitment to science.
You know that the injustice done to my son was the trigger for war.
The 1979 version of the self-styled Great American Race was the trigger.
Watching the first episode of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom was the trigger point.
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