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The MIT researchers wanted a fiber that could actuate silently and change its shape dramatically, while being compatible with common textile manufacturing procedures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

For starters, you can adjust the point at which its switches actuate and register a keypress.

From The Verge ● Jun. 22, 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

Belief, in Christ's sense of the word, is not the acceptance of a theory, it is something that will actuate the man's whole being, and which requires the concurrence of an emancipated will.

From Pastor Pastorum by Rev. Henry Latham

By carefully mixing chemicals to synthesize the LCE, the researchers can control the final properties of the fiber, such as its thickness or the temperature at which it actuates.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

Or, if you want the keyboard to feel as responsive as possible, you might set the actuation point to 0.5mm, so you barely have to touch the key before it actuates.

From The Verge ● Nov. 23, 2021

There are also a huge number of different kinds of Cherry MX switches, each of which takes a different amount of pressure to press and actuates in a different way.

From The Verge ● Jun. 21, 2019

“What will then be left of what Madison called ‘the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, the spirit which nourishes freedom and in return is nourished by it’?” wondered Azerrad.

From MSNBC ● Sep. 24, 2014

“I fear, Octavian, you often do not account for self-interest. ’Tis only self-love and self-interest which actuates animals.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The car I drove, the 420 Sport, uses a Mercedes-AMG-supplied 2.0-liter turbo-four and eight-speed dual-clutch automated transaxle, actuated with beautifully weighted shift paddles behind the steering wheel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

In a statement issued by his lawyer, Wootton said the allegations were "completely spurious - lies designed to destroy my career where complainants were actuated by malice".

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2024

The researchers replaced the heart muscle in the left chamber with a silicone-made soft robotic pump system actuated by air.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2024

He tinkered with electrically actuated floating mines and bought ships for the Confederate navy; one, the CSS Georgia, had a long run raiding Union merchants.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 2, 2021

Whether she was really an agent of the Thought Police, or simply an amateur spy actuated by officiousness, hardly mattered.

From "1984" by George Orwell

A programmable, actuating fiber developed by an interdisciplinary team of MIT researchers could someday make this vision a reality.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

Bao’s artificial nerves already do something similar, adding up mechanical signals and converting them into an actuating one.

From Nature ● Nov. 20, 2018

Such questions grow more urgent as we fill our homes – and bodies – with sensor-studded, actuating surveillance robots.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2015

When a ball enters the split segment of pipe, it pushes the two halves of the pipe apart, actuating a switching device.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2011

Here, by dint of working up to their knees in water, the artificers succeeded in bolting it in position, and the preliminary trial of the actuating rods gave promise of success.

From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman