catalysts

plural of catalyst

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Recent Examples of catalysts These catalysts accelerate oxygen reactions that typically slow battery performance. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025 What to Look Out For In terms of potential catalysts to shake things up this fall, mortgage rates are the elephant in the room. John Walkup, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 The company has a wave of catalysts coming into year-end and 2026, from insurance company reimbursement wins to treatment launches to clinical trials. Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025 And there are few catalysts on the horizon. Brett Owens, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025 With few near-term catalysts and shares at a key technical level that often signals losses, market watchers are warning of more disappointment ahead. Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catalysts
Noun
  • Passenger demand fuels growing revenue No question, travelers’ first priority when heading to the airport is that their flight is on time.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This imbalance undermines trust, impairs decision-making and fuels agency problems.
    Michael Hilb, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Many students rely on social media platforms to access online classes, research materials and collaborative learning tools.
    Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
  • By transforming consumer devices into medical monitoring tools, gaps could be bridged in health care by providing continuous oversight.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Added to this was a disillusioning disappointment with the mechanisms of the art world.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This includes revenue-sharing mechanisms, transparency requirements and limits on how employee data can be used—especially for algorithmic management or training AI models.
    James Felton Keith, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The chamber has urged Beijing to consider ways to fix the root causes of overproduction and give the private sector a bigger role in major industries such as healthcare where state entities tend to hold a greater sway in China.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Lisa Lake/Getty Images for MoveOn Ben & Jerry's has become known for more than its ice cream, garnering publicity for championing a number of social causes relating to climate change, racial justice and immigration.
    Hugh Cameron Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The projects received millions in state and local tax incentives after promising to create thousands of new jobs.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The transparency requirements will improve safety across all frontier models, and without it, companies may face incentives to prioritize growth over safety and transparency, Anthropic added.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Just getting the vehicles out of the barn was a daylong process.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The firm has been trialing its electric vehicles in various cities over the last couple of years, and inaugurated an assembly and testing plant in Hayward, California, to produce 10,000 vans annually that Zoox itself will own and operate.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trump claimed without evidence that McEntarfer had manipulated statistics for political reasons.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Housing is one of the reasons anyone in tech will tell you that the industry is thriving in California largely in spite of regulations, not because of them.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Swift’s drink is served wrapped in steel wool, which the server ignites at the table, causing sparks to fly.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The alert comes days after the FAA demonstrated for CNN how a thermal runaway in a battery power pack in a seat back pocket could suddenly launch a violent shower of sparks and ignite a fire.
    Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Catalysts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catalysts. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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