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catalyze

[kat-l-ahyz] / ˈkæt lˌaɪz /
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leaven
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Patriotism as enacted by the creative community takes the American experiment seriously enough to question, examine, remember what we’ve forgotten and catalyze collective American dreaming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

It has been running scenario-planning exercises like this in cities around the world to catalyze proactive strategies for confronting an AI-driven future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Poon said that SpaceX work on the data centers will help catalyze development of the technology — and he expects his company will be able to hire SpaceX engineers seeking to work at a startup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

The consolidation of regional power by Modi’s party could catalyze structural reforms, which often get bogged down in federal-state conflicts, says Madhavi Arora, chief economist at Emkay Global Financial Services in Mumbai.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

But all of his bold resolve would have come to nothing without the vast indigenous army whose leaders believed they could use the Spanish presence to catalyze the destruction of the Triple Alliance.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

A pre-formed pure-phase NiO catalyst showed no POM activity and instead catalyzed only the complete oxidation of methane.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

“We see great market fundamentals with higher corporate margins and earnings momentum catalyzed by new technology.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

In terms of the stock market set up going into earnings, Evercore notes that “the mood around tech is as cautious as it was in the runup to 1Q26 when earnings catalyzed the market higher.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Recognizing that the more our lives are mediated with digital tools the harder it becomes to live without them has catalyzed less explicitly political pushes for offline attention as well.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

His formula is that faith, hope, belief and expectation, all catalyzed by the imagination, lead inevitably to hypnosis.

From A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Melvin Powers

Artificial intelligence is catalyzing innovation and attracting millions of users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

So far, the financial benefits of AI are more apparent in the chip sector, catalyzing a rotation out of software stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026

From Buenos Aires to Mexico City, pragmatic changes and fiscal credibility are catalyzing investment.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025

They are involved, for example, in catalyzing chemical reactions, transferring of electrons, sensing changing environmental conditions and synthesizing other complex metal cofactors.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024

The clays have a complex active surface, given to absorbing and releasing gases and to catalyzing chemical reactions.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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