Can you interpret these sentences?
Seeing the children in the park prompted thought of his own sons on the other side of the Atlantic.

What does 'prompt' mean here?

SuperMart was a small Family store that evolve into a national supermrket chain

Here what does evolve mean ? Is it natural? I though we use evolve or evolution only for humans or their progression !!

News programs tend to focus on trivia at the expense of serious issues . what I can't understand is the word 'at the expense of...' Could u rephrase this sentence?

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Can you interpret these sentences?
Seeing the children in the park prompted thought of his own sons on the other side of the Atlantic.

What does 'prompt' mean here?

SuperMart was a small Family store that evolve into a national supermrket chain

Here what does evolve mean ? Is it natural? I though we use evolve or evolution only for humans or their progression !!

News programs tend to focus on trivia at the expense of serious issues . what I can't understand is the word 'at the expense of...' Could u rephrase this sentence?

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1. Prompt means the same as reminded here.

2. Think of evolved asprogressed .

3. At the expense of here would be just like it was a person and you said something bad about him to gain something for yourself. Like a joke where you get laughs but they get made fun of. That's a joke at someone's expense. News media often skews events to make people swing to their opinion. It's called propaganda.

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"... at the expense of coverage of serious issues."  There is a limited amount of time and coverage of serious issues "loses" to coverage of trivial things,

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