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catalyze

[kat-l-ahyz] / ˈkæt lˌaɪz /
VERB
leaven
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Earlier this year, the chemicals company launched its “Transform to Outperform” program, aiming to employ artificial intelligence and automation to reduce expenditures and catalyze growth and productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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 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

Beyond selling cars, the hope has been that Lucid will help catalyze a local Saudi EV manufacturing sector.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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

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

But the silence has catalyzed non-Swiftie onlookers to gin up something decisively, inarguably odious to place at the singer’s feet.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 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

I stopped eating in the house, even on the weekends, because without Clara’s catalyzing presence there was no reason why I should put up with my children’s bickering.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende


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