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The phrase "set in motion" is correct and commonly used in written English
It means to begin or start something, often implying that there was some effort or action required to get the process started. Example: The new government policies were set in motion by months of research and planning.
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Set in motion
verb
To trigger movement, to get going
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Set in motion at least 10 new Garden Cities.
Football cannot be set in motion artificially.
It was set in motion from 2013.
A deal was set in motion.
Thus the plot is set in motion.
Then you set in motion a destructive spiral".
He could set in motion a Labor walkout.
The poverty cycle for these families is set in motion.
All of this was set in motion before Rouhani".
Those conflicts are being set in motion now.
That set in motion a huge shuffling of the portfolio.
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