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Discover LudwigThe phrase "act like a catalyst" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that facilitates or accelerates a process or change without being consumed in the process.
Example: "The new manager was able to act like a catalyst for innovation within the team, inspiring everyone to think outside the box."
Alternatives: "serve as a catalyst" or "function as a catalyst".
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But Mr. Holman also was engaged in a series of skirmishes with government regulators that acted like a catalyst on his iconoclastic spirit.
For the four hot months we were there, the heat island effect acted like a catalyst.
It was explained by one interviewee that typing results had acted like a catalyst on the organisation: I just think, as I say I can't tell you what difference it can make.
RNA seemed a likely first biomolecule, because, like DNA, it can store information, and, like proteins, it can act as a catalyst to speed up certain chemical reactions.
By the turn of the millennium, a tragedy like the Columbine High School massacre could act as a catalyst for more than a dozen sentimental dramas.
Cannabis, like all psychoactive substances, will act as a catalyst for any pre disposition to a psychiatric or psychotic episode.
It is no magic tool, but it can act as a catalyst for epiphanies and can make you ask questions like, 'If not now, when?'".
But it could still act as a catalyst.
Just one victory, Ryan insisted, might act as a catalyst.
Only then will they act as a catalyst for investment, jobs and growth".
The agreement signed by the five countries will act as a catalyst for all of us".
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