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Six example sentences with activating, each labelled with its topic.
Coaches spend ten minutes activating the glutes before heavy lifts, waking muscles that sitting all day has left sleepy.
Fitness
Activating the standby servers took four minutes, and traffic flowed normally the moment they came alive.
Technology
Activating the enzyme requires heat; below eighty degrees the powder simply sits in the flask doing nothing.
Science
Activating the yeast in warm water with a pinch of sugar takes ten minutes, and the foam tells you it is alive.
Cooking
Activating the shield drains half the energy bar, so most players save it for the final wave.
Gaming
Activating the dormant accounts with a single reminder email brought back four hundred users in a week.
Startups
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