activate
Example Sentences
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“Because if you don’t activate them, they can quite often become places where unhealthy, unproductive activity takes place.”
From Los Angeles Times
After my relative was declared mentally incompetent by two doctors, the lawyer activated the POA and is now preparing to place my relative in assisted living, which they do not want.
From MarketWatch
Surely if one driver activates overtake mode the other driver can activate boost mode to negate any benefit?
From BBC
At the other end of the scale, the technology could also be used to make tiny structures that, when activated, open up and deliver drugs to specific sites in the body.
From BBC
AI systems can harbor sleeper agents, trained to behave perfectly under evaluation and activate under specific conditions without detection.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
