kick in

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Recent Examples of kick in Aside from that, higher steel and aluminum tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will kick in Wednesday. Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 4 June 2025 Its program control features only kick in when a local app connects to a dangerous internet or network address. PC Magazine, 4 June 2025 Jadon Sancho put the final to bed with what might be one of his last kicks in Chelsea blue (above). Phil Hay, New York Times, 29 May 2025 Those tariffs would have kicked in starting June 1. Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for kick in
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kick in
Verb
  • Members who are able to earn money - from selling fish, from growing vegetables - contribute regularly.
    Viola Kosome, NPR, 1 June 2025
  • More than a dozen San Diego County residents are being accused of contributing to the damage from last year’s flooding — most of them by the city of San Diego, and now another two by an East County school district.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025
Verb
  • The filming of his funeral took three full days, and Hogestyn died the following weekend.
    Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 9 June 2025
  • Sly Stone, a funk pioneer whose influence and impact as leader of the musical group Sly and the Family Stone was as enduring as his career was brief, died Monday in Los Angeles.
    Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
Verb
  • In 2023, the number of fatalities fell slightly, to six fatal boating incidents resulting in seven deaths, according to state data.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2025
  • Crucially, the flagship brand Moncler saw sales rise only 2% and its crucial Europe, Middle East, and Africa region fell by 1%.
    Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 3 June 2025
Verb
  • Language begins to perish: The same words recur, deadeningly.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025
  • But keeping the oysters out of the reef during peak feeding season could have caused some to perish, Fiala said.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2025

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“Kick in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kick%20in. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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