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catalyze

[kat-l-ahyz] / ˈkæt lˌaɪz /
VERB
leaven
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Canada has said that its deal with China equates to less than 3% of the country’s current new-car sales and that it expects the deal to catalyze new Chinese joint-venture investments there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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 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

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

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

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

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

Since 2021, Michigan Economic Development Corp.’s entrepreneurship and innovation investments catalyzed more than 15,800 jobs and more than 1,400 high-tech companies, with every $1 in state investment leveraging $85 from other sources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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

Fair Isaac’s stock reaction shows some “market jitters about this announcement potentially catalyzing some switching to VantageScore 4.0,” wrote BMO’s Ryan Griffin and Jeffrey M. Silber.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 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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