in/into high gear
idiom
: in or into a state of great or intense activity
The project is now in high gear.
Fuel prices are expected to rise as the summer travel season kicks/moves into high gear.
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Her initial finance filing shows her spending about $4,000 in startup costs and bank fees, with only a few hundred dollars in cash on hand this month — all figures bound to change as the campaigns kick into high gear.
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Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2025
Earnings season kicks into high gear next week with more than 100 companies in the S & P 500 scheduled to report.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
The next presidential race could kick into high gear just after the 2026 midterms, if not sooner.
—New York Times, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2025
And as Times reporters Howard Blume, Jenny Gold, Jaweed Kaleem and Daniel Miller wrote in this handy primer, Trump and California’s education institutions were already on a collision course that’s now in high gear.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
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Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2025
Earnings season kicks into high gear next week with more than 100 companies in the S & P 500 scheduled to report.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
The next presidential race could kick into high gear just after the 2026 midterms, if not sooner.
—New York Times, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2025
And as Times reporters Howard Blume, Jenny Gold, Jaweed Kaleem and Daniel Miller wrote in this handy primer, Trump and California’s education institutions were already on a collision course that’s now in high gear.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
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“In/into high gear.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%2Finto%20high%20gear. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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