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'activating' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when talking about initiating or starting a process or action. For example: I need to activate the car's GPS system before I can use the navigation.
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activating
verb
Present participle of activate
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Knowing that X and Y are associated amounts to knowing a causal fact: that activating Xs will bring about the activation of Ys and vice versa.
It governs the activity of CDK1 and its ilk by activating and deactivating the proteins that those genes generate.
If we know that a mind has an associative bond between green and toucan, then we know that activating one of those concepts leads to the activation of the other.
Recent research has eroded the idea that dreaming only occurs during REM sleep, and that it's a "bottom-up' process", with older parts of the brain activating the more recently evolved ones.
In cultivating the far right and the hard left in Europe – between them they now control more than a quarter of the European parliament – Kremlin strategists are activating a policy that is at least a decade old, say Russian experts.
My neutral mole, who has been canvassing the Premiership dressing-room mood, is particularly unconvinced by the argument that activating the exceptional-circumstances clause in this instance would seriously undermine the domestic league and lead to a mass exodus of English talent to France.
She'll normally play for about 10 to 20 seconds before activating the home screen.
By accepting our Terms of Service and activating a listing, you certify that you will follow your local laws and regulations.
Google claims it is activating 1.3m Android devices a day.What Google portrayed as a smart way to keep options open looked to Apple like a declaration of war, one in which a furious Jobs said he intended to go "thermonuclear".
CREB molecules do this by twinning up and binding to the DNA near a gene that needs activating.
This would be done by activating appropriate genes.
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