activators

noun

plural of activator
as in catalysts

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  1. catalysts
  2. generators
  3. drivers
  4. stimuli
  5. incentives
  6. executors
  7. triggers
  8. agencies
Noun
  • Record cell performance Subsequent tests carried out by the researchers showed a significant performance difference between the catalysts.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Drbul also noted that product innovation represents one of the most important catalysts for share price recovery.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of catalysts
Noun
  • Using sine wave generators and pink lighting so saturated it essentially blots out all other color and shadow, Young and Zazeela created a space that’s somehow both static and full of life.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Drawing power from the air inside a home sounds almost impossible, but moist-electric generators do just that.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of generators
Noun
  • As usual at the Bahrain GP, the top three drivers will celebrate on the podium with bottles of fragrant, non-alcoholic rosewater, not Champagne.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Either way, the credit helped juice interest in EVs, and overcome some of the reservations drivers have about them.
    — Willa Rubin, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of drivers
Noun
  • Researchers have studied how certain facial and auricular stimuli interact with parasympathetic activity.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Researchers have also explored how certain facial and auricular stimuli may interact with parasympathetic activity.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of stimuli
Noun
  • And among recent film offerings are movie shot locally as the Garden State enjoys a Hollywood production boom underpinned by film tax credits and other state incentives and local hires.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The Port Authority of Kansas City approved incentives for the development earlier this year.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of incentives
Noun
  • No charges have been filed against the co-executors, Epstein's longtime lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn.
    — Dan Mangan,Jim Forkin, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
  • While executors have time to complete estate administration, 10 years stretches beyond reasonable expectations.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of executors
Noun
  • Walz also is calling for the Legislature to re-pass a ban on binary triggers, modifications for semiautomatic rifles that fire a shot when the trigger is pulled and again while released, greatly boosting the weapon’s rate of fire.
    — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 24 Feb. 2026
Definition of triggers
Noun
  • The Fed has long blamed a range of factors for the cost overruns, including a spike in inflation, unexpected expenses such as asbestos remediation, and additional demands from review agencies.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The other, Patrick McHenry, was in Congress for 20 years and helped craft export controls on surveillance technologies that could benefit China’s military or intelligence agencies.
    — Patrick McHenry, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of agencies
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