How to Use catalyze in a Sentence

catalyze

verb

• The near-miss catalyzed the state to pay closer attention to the dams.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• Glenelg was quick to respond catalyzed by its press and Chen’s offense.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024
• What sort of crisis might catalyze progress in Congress?
  — Dallas News, 18 July 2022
• All these moving and shining parts could both harvest and catalyze the energy of the people in the streets.
  — Thomas De Monchaux, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2022
• Not far from Peartree Lane, a slow-moving slide continues to shift land in the Portuguese Bend area, first catalyzed in 1946.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• The winter catalyzes the group's acceptance of their new normal.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• That’s been catalyzed by the new class of more effective weight loss drugs that have been recently approved, with more on the way.
  — Alice Park, Time, 30 June 2023
• His comments helped to catalyze a fresh scramble higher for the market.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• There’s no doubt the internet has catalyzed the frenzy around Dunn’s pottery.
  — Courtney Vinopal, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• The growth of these marketplaces has been catalyzed in no small part by bankruptcies in the crypto sector.
  — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• But claims about bone broth healing chronic joint pain and catalyzing weight loss tend to be a bit far-fetched, experts say.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
• And the presence of the stadium alone was not enough to catalyze development.
  — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022
• Higgs points out that listing the species as threatened might catalyze such funding.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 23 Dec. 2022
• His goal is to catalyze a mighty industry of space businesses.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 21 July 2021
• Investors had hoped that earnings would serve as a welcome distraction from the Fed and would catalyze a turnaround.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 28 Jan. 2022
• The film also explores their doubts and anxieties — about whether women would go on the record or if the article would catalyze change.
  — Megan Ditrolio, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• There were six lives that were lost in addition to the shooter in Nashville at the Covenant School, who has catalyzed this conversation and this need for change in our state.
  — ABC News, 9 Apr. 2023
• Sometimes that happens: Rosa Parks said that images of the mangled body of 14-year-old Emmett Till catalyzed her to refuse to give up her seat on a bus weeks later.
  — Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• Still, as much as any player on the Bears roster, Montgomery is set up for a big year and hopes his production can catalyze team success.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2021
• List was working with huge enzymes that catalyze reactions in the human body.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
• After all, small steps are less likely to catalyze resistance than large leaps.
  — Aziz Huq, Time, 6 July 2023
• She’s often catalyzed the process with a secret ritual.
  — Jenn Pelly, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2023
• Systems thinking can be used to catalyze many shifts in society.
  — Ashoka, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Yet, more than a rude awakening, the professor said, the findings should catalyze action.
  — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
• The swap rates, which reflect the cost of insuring against a default by Deutsche Bank, spiked late last week, catalyzing a selloff in the German bank's stocks and riskier bonds.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
• Rico Nasty also credited the 2015 birth of her son, Cameron, with catalyzing her rap career.
  — Hillary Crosley Coker, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Over the weekend, and on Monday morning, that just started to catalyze across the digital assets ecosystem.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• That’s partly because, much like August, there is a lull in economic data that could catalyze a stock rally.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
• Charter serves as a guide and vital partner to the people who want to take best advantage of this opportunity to catalyze change.
  — Time, 28 Sep. 2021
• Mercosur is widely seen as falling far short of its aims to catalyze a common market in South America.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024