actuate

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They perfected a preparation technique that creates LCE fiber which can actuate at skin-safe temperatures, making it suitable for wearable fabrics.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023

You need to press them 1.9mm before they actuate, compared to 1.2mm for Cherry MX Speed Silver, for example.

From The Verge • Mar. 18, 2022

"My task was to design the means of allowing a customer, and only a genuine customer, to actuate the dispenser mechanism," he said.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2016

Screens were mostly resistive, that is, hard to actuate with a tap. 

From Forbes • Apr. 25, 2011

It is only those who know little or nothing of the feelings which actuate the real lovers of books who doubt about such very simple facts as these.

From Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Chandler, Henry W.