into action

idiom

: to an active state

They had already put the plan into action.

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So even if a lot of young Chinese men go down to the bottom of the Taiwan Strait, a lot more can be sent into action. —

Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024 The benefit of putting your words into action is clear: take an inventory of your company values and intentionally weave those into your everyday interactions with society. 3. —

Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 When the right spot was nudged into action by the electricity, a signal would spread through the network like the ripples seen when a stone is tossed into a body of water. —

Linda Carroll, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024 Iran could quickly put its preparations into action if Tehran decides to strike soon, but the U.S. doesn't know if that decision has been made, a U.S. official told Axios. —

Barak Ravid, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for into action