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Recent Examples of Synonyms for set in motion
Verb
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Similar summaries of the show in the magazine Soap Opera Digest provoked outrage within the fledgling magazine’s readership.—
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On May 18, Venus will conclude its journey through the flirtatious and thought-provoking sign of Gemini and enter the sentimental and hopeless romantic sign of Cancer.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
Verb
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The attorney general will pick who disburses money from the fund and the president can remove any of those people, according to the DOJ.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
19 May 2026
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This is as important, and as boring, in theory, as picking a fund for your 401(k), yet, improbably, the draft has become one of the largest events on the sporting calendar.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
Verb
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Its candor incited a small-scale moral panic.—
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18 May 2026
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Holzinger is a performance artist working in the taboo-breaking tradition of the Vienna Actionists, who used blood, meat, and naked bodies to incite disgust and test the endurance of the audience.—
Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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“Set in motion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/set%20in%20motion. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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