The only assumption she could make was that it had somehow triggered an idea for him.

Pain signals are somehow triggered by the nervous system and continue to fire for months or even years.

I think that the image was somehow triggered by hypnosis.

Besides, they could always claim the security system was somehow triggered.

It was turned off at the time out of fear that a friendly ship might somehow trigger the weapon to fire.

Yet she felt sure it all was triggered somehow by the Holy Egg.

Shock at Aidan's death somehow triggered our father's powers, and he knew who was responsible.

It was probably some kind of automatic device triggered somehow by Cranston.

The ship still has an automatic power source of some sort that we somehow triggered on entering.

This thing that fell to earth, whatever it was, had somehow triggered volcanolike activity deep beneath the earth's surface.