actuate
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The jacket would actuate and "hug" the dog based on a Bluetooth signal from Forman's smartphone.
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
Tennyson has said that every man attributes to another the motives which would actuate himself'—and that was all!
From Critical Studies by Ouida
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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