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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are the catalyst" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that causes or accelerates a change or action in a particular context.
Example: "The new policies are the catalyst for significant improvements in employee productivity."
Alternatives: "serve as the catalyst" or "act as the catalyst".
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Roads are the catalyst for much of the destruction by, for example, giving illegal loggers access into the Amazon or poachers access to wild animals.
The "best high school" rankings that put BASIS near the top, are the catalyst that allowed the Blocks to build an empire.
Employees can be seen as the Achilles' heel of cybersecurity; mistakes by those with access to a company's systems are the catalyst for 95% of all incidents.
The complainer's "lyrics," which Lucinda passes off as her own work, are the catalyst that causes Bedwin to ratchet things up a level and write his best songs ever.
And as for all those readers and critics who have long leapt to the facile conclusion that Austen disliked or distrusted theatre because amateur theatricals are the catalyst for the breakdown of order in Mansfield Park – well, they're wrong too.
On a few crucial pages, we see Immonen's renderings of the masterpieces that are the catalyst for this small struggle within a much greater one — he draws them in a sketchier, more offhand style — and the story's tone shifts.
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