create change vs create changes

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Create change' is used when referring to making a significant impact or transformation, while 'create changes' is used when talking about making multiple alterations or modifications.

Last updated: March 23, 2024

create change

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to making a significant impact or transformation.

This phrase is used when talking about initiating a transformation or making a significant impact on a situation, system, or environment.

Examples:

We need to create change in our community to address the issues we are facing.
Her innovative ideas helped create change in the company's approach to sustainability.

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Because of the resources, the skills, and certainly the surge of talent we're seeing all around the world, with the mindset to create change.
The question is whether the release of Wei Jingsheng is the spark that could light a prairie fire in the form of further strong stands on human rights in China, whether it is the butterfly which will set off the hurricane which will really create change in China.
Improbably, this LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.
And this, of course, tackles the biggest assumption of all, that business is business, and philanthropy is the vehicle of people who want to create change in the world.
So it's really important that if we're designing and trying to create change, we build that change.
Madam President, my original speaking time was unfairly cut short as it approached the two-and-a-half-minute limit, but the conclusion of my argument was that you cannot create change through foreign interventions or other forms of military violence.
The responsibility of Parliament is to support a UK presidency which said the following, 'We have to create changes to equip people to live during permanent changes'.
When we legislate, we create changes that will have a direct impact on the lives of 500 million people in the years to come, while for own-initiative reports this transfer takes much longer and is much smaller.
[Taren] If there's no massive global public outcry, it won't create any change.
Accepting his 2008 Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continent's creative potential, we can create a change in Africa's future.
The interface between building materials, decentralised solar and biomass based renewables, smart metering and grids will create a change of paradigm to buildings as power generators.
We also believe that the market cannot use its autonomous and automatic procedures to create the changes needed for the purpose.
Help for Heroes aims to create positive change in the lives of people who've put themselves at risk for the protection of others.
Mr President, the advent of the single currency will certainly create many changes and, at times, not for the better.
This change creates a high quality instrument, and I congratulate Mrs Weiler.
If we can somehow create a change of spirit, a change of mind.
The physical force creates a change in resistance of the filament, thereby unbalancing the bridge circuit which in turn changes the voltage of the current passing through.
3. The Commission shall be informed in sufficient time of plans to create or change the tax incentives referred to in paragraph 1, so that it can submit its observations.
Or if the first door closing creates a change of air pressure that acts upon the second.
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continent's creative potential, we can create a change in Africa's future.

Alternatives:

bring about change
initiate change
make a difference

create changes

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to making multiple alterations or modifications.

This phrase is used when talking about making alterations or modifications to something, implying more than one change.