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The phrase "activated a key" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to technology, security, or gaming, where a key or code is used to unlock or enable a function or feature.
Example: "After entering the correct password, the system activated a key that granted access to the secure files."
Alternatives: "triggered a key" or "enabled a key".
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■ A man with a handgun approached the mother of the Hall of Famer Cal Ripken in a bank parking lot in Maryland and demanded her car, but she activated a key alarm and he left, the police said.
The man demanded her car, but she activated a key alarm and he fled.
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It is a line of attack echoed across the US as midterm campaigns heat up, and Democrats seek to activate a key demographic constituency.
It is displayed on the touch screen, but to activate a key you have to put a finger on it and depress the screen, which is a giant click button.
Performed in cells and in mice, her group's research began with an attempt to see what nutrients might activate a key protein called AMP kinase (AMPK), said Patti, senior author on a paper about the work published in Molecular Metabolism.
Membrane-type matrix metalloproteinases (MT-MMPs) have attracted strong attention, because four of them can activate a key player in the tumor scenario, proMMP-2/progelatinase A. In addition to this indirect effect on the cellular environment, these MT-MMPs degrade extracellular matrix proteins, and their overproduction is associated with tumor growth.
The most successful social media campaigns activate a key emotion or emotions.
So when the Starbucks manager in Philadelphia picked up the phone and dialed 911 two minutes after Nelson and Robinson arrived, she was not only enacting a centuries-old white supremacist trope or activating a key mechanism for keeping spaces white.
Thus, the treatment may rapidly activate a key transcription factor that induces angiogenesis.
TLRs are major pattern recognition receptors involved in the initiation and propagation of inflammation, and the ability of TLR7 to activate a key pro-resolving pathway seems surprising.
Thus, ghrelin activates a key mesolimbic circuit involved in natural as well as drug-induced reinforcement, the cholinergic-dopaminergic reward link (Jerlhag et al. 2006, 2007, 2008).
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