actuate
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Another, called a McKibben actuator, is pneumatically driven and requires an air compressor to actuate.
From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023
For starters, you can adjust the point at which its switches actuate and register a keypress.
From The Verge • Jun. 22, 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
Belief, in Christ's sense of the word, is not the acceptance of a theory, it is something that will actuate the man's whole being, and which requires the concurrence of an emancipated will.
From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry
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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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