swing into action
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It didn’t take long for Google and Facebook to swing into action.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022
Studies indicate that glia, the cells that nurture neurons in the CNS, swing into action in response to damage to peripheral nerves.
From Scientific American • Oct. 10, 2021
Oppenheim said NBC News anticipated Trump’s remarks and was ready to swing into action.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2020
Weird things happen in August, forcing everyone to swing into action.
From Fox News • Aug. 18, 2020
In the spring of 1933, as Hermann Muller began his work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, he watched Nazi “applied biology” swing into action.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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