catalyzing

present participle of catalyze

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Recent Examples of catalyzing Still, Bessent's comments Thursday failed to send bond yields lower, in turn catalyzing a sell-off in stocks that left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 700 points by the close. Alex Harring, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026 That’s partly because proteins do most of the business of life, catalyzing the interesting chemistry and structuring cells. ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026 Friendly state legislatures are steering money to private schools, catalyzing huge growth in recent years with far-reaching consequences. Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 16 July 2026 Advertisement Transparency will play a huge role in catalyzing this change. Sasha Luccioni, Time, 3 July 2026 YouTube simplified video uploading before catalyzing the creator economy and adjacent monetization ecosystems. Bill Oldham, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 The 2019 export ban changed that dynamic, catalyzing a sharp increase in domestic mineral processing investment and accelerating industrial development. Pandu Sjahrir, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026 The Golden State is at a critical juncture in textile waste management, with the implementation of SB 707 catalyzing a circular economy. Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Feb. 2026 Mandated by the state’s Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, a 2021 bill catalyzing the transition to 100% renewable energy sources, this is the second four-year grid plan for ComEd. Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catalyzing
Verb
  • Running open-weight AI agents and programs has been gaining steam, creating shortages for desktop Macs.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The rest of the lunar surface may take on an eerie reddish-orange hue, creating an impressive 'almost blood moon'.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The issue is that AI technology iterates extremely fast, causing related equipment and computing assets to depreciate rapidly, whereas financing debts are long term, creating a maturity mismatch risk.
    , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This month, her mother’s memory-care facility was in an evacuation zone, causing many sleepless nights.
    Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • When generating text, large language models pick each next word from a set of plausible candidates.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The uneven nature seen by ALMA is likely the result of massive convective movements in the star, hot plasma rising through the star and generating shockwaves that erupt in the star's atmosphere, creating bright and hot regions.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Moon enters Aries and your 5th House of Creativity, Romance, Play, and Self-Expression, bringing fresh energy to fun, confidence, desire, and artistic risk.
    Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Brooks Lee hit a two-run home run and Kody Clemens had a solo home run, bringing the Twins within 4-3.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Candidates who struggle to provide substantive answers—or who can’t name anyone without prompting—may often show this same pattern of taking solo credit throughout the interview and beyond.
    Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Clancy then began taking Zoloft, prompting immediate difficulty, Heilbrun said, recounting the symptoms and treatments in the lead-up to the death of Clancy's children months later in January 2023.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Finite’s founder, Amy Gardner, has producing credits on the likes of And Then Come the Nightjars, La Bohème, Honeytrap, and My House, and worked on the stage productions of Nuclear Children and The Joy of Text.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Those numbers should prompt serious questions about what is happening in classrooms and whether NYC Reads — the city’s sweeping changes to reading instruction — is producing the results students need.
    Katie Pace Miles, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • While doing so has helped millions of individuals access the power of electronics, the shrinking size of transistors is presenting problems at mass manufacturing scales.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Alicia McCalla, 56, a fiction writer who has been doing voice work for five years out of her home in Atlanta, decided to ignore union suggestions and clone her voice.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • This mystery has tantalized scientists since Charles Darwin mused on it in 1871, spawning no shortage of competing theories about the origins of Earth’s biology around four billion years ago.
    Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Later in August, the salmon will begin to weaken and die after spawning.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026

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“Catalyzing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catalyzing. Accessed 31 Aug. 2026.

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