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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

The report warns that upcoming Fed meetings could catalyze rate volatility if the tightening that the markets demand isn’t forthcoming.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

By putting the bank’s own money to work on national security, he is doubling down on earlier attempts to catalyze societal changes, from fighting global warming to empowering Black citizens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

One reason why technology tends to catalyze itself is that advances depend upon previous mastery of simpler problems.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

One result of this shift in awareness has been a sixfold increase in investing by younger people since 2015, catalyzed by technology that has made the stock market more accessible.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

That has catalyzed Hyundai’s labor union, which includes roughly 40,000 workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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

That shift provided evidence that the aluminum sites were actively catalyzing the chemical reaction.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

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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