actuate
verb (used with object)
actuated
Example Sentences
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In a statement issued by his lawyer, Wootton said the allegations were "completely spurious - lies designed to destroy my career where complainants were actuated by malice".
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2024
The researchers replaced the heart muscle in the left chamber with a silicone-made soft robotic pump system actuated by air.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2024
He tinkered with electrically actuated floating mines and bought ships for the Confederate navy; one, the CSS Georgia, had a long run raiding Union merchants.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 2, 2021
"The undisputed facts and reasonable inferences point ineluctably to the conclusions that Thicklen's abhorrent acts were in no way actuated by a purpose to serve county," he wrote.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2020
Now that I am actuated by hopes more active—by anger at injustice and demand for benevolence—I fear I shall not be so reckless of my life.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
