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
"Conduct is not in the scope if it is different in kind from that authorized, far beyond the authorized time or space, or too little actuated by a purpose to serve the employer," he said.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2020
Whether she was really an agent of the Thought Police, or simply an amateur spy actuated by officiousness, hardly mattered.
From "1984" by George Orwell
