catalyze

The headphones themselves then emit a purple glow from integrated LED lights, which catalyze a reaction that causes the patented material to harden over the course of 60 seconds.
UE’s new headphones use an app and LED lights to create a truly custom fit|Stan Horaczek|October 1, 2020|Popular-Science
This is the state that is a perfect place to be to start processing very difficult, traumatic memories and really catalyzing a therapeutic process.
How Are Psychedelics and Other Party Drugs Changing Psychiatry? (Ep. 433)|Stephen J. Dubner|October 1, 2020|Freakonomics
The promise of a new generation of low-cost, long-lasting batteries is catalyzing a long-awaited shift to electric vehicles.
Cheaper, longer-lasting batteries are speeding up the shift to electric vehicles|Joann Muller|September 4, 2020|Axios
We have yet to see sufficient progress to change our approach and continue to hope this collective action helps catalyze positive change and accountability.
As the Facebook boycott ends, brand advertisers are split on what happens next with their marketing budgets|Seb Joseph|August 3, 2020|Digiday

As you build or reevaluate your inclusion strategy, here are three considerations that can catalyze sustainable, institutional change in your organization.
How to turn corporate antiracism from promise to practice|Erin L. Thomas|July 30, 2020|Quartz
They can initiate ideas and catalyze a certain form, but the trick is not to begin, but to sustain.
Chang-rae Lee: How I Write|Noah Charney|January 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They reward leaders who push the envelope, catalyze action, and get stuff done.
How Cities Are Fixing America|Bruce Katz, Jennifer Bradley|June 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
On the band-wagon of growing criticism over Israeli policies, these groups use BDS to catalyze an anti-Israeli zeitgeist.
Partial B(DS)?|Eran Shayshon|July 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Cam's feverish brain had figured out a host of effects to catalyze the audience reaction.
Telempathy|Vance Simonds

Scientific definitions for catalyze

catalyze

[ kăt′l-īz′ ]

To modify, especially to increase, the rate of a chemical reaction through the action of a catalyst.