as in to take off
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Recent Examples of blastoff
Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024
The countdown began months ago at Voodoo Brewing Co. in Meridian, but now things are nearing blastoff.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 2 May 2024
Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
Blue Origin’s 11th human flight—and first with an all-female flight team—blasted off from West Texas’ Launch Site One Monday morning on a flight that lasted about 10 minutes, Travel + Leisure reports.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Each day, there are Big Top performances at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., with a human cannonball blastoff at 1:45 p.m.
Admission costs $23 for teens and adults, $20 for seniors (ages 65 and up) and $15 for children (ages 5-12).
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024
The countdown began months ago at Voodoo Brewing Co. in Meridian, but now things are nearing blastoff.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 2 May 2024
Verb
Its oldest crystals formed 4.51 billion years ago from the stream of molten matter that got blasted off Earth by a giant impact event.
—Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
Blue Origin’s 11th human flight—and first with an all-female flight team—blasted off from West Texas’ Launch Site One Monday morning on a flight that lasted about 10 minutes, Travel + Leisure reports.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blastoff
Noun
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While working in South America, the Neapolitan engineer oversaw the launch of a plant in Brazil that made Jeep the country’s top-selling SUV brand.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center coordinated the launch, which sent four Tianqi satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO).—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
19 May 2025
Verb
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She and Russell were engaged in 2008 and her career was taking off.—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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The ship had taken off from the nearby Pier 17 shortly before the incident.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
18 May 2025
Verb
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Without bees, moths, weevils, and more zooming around and spreading plants’ reproductive cells, plants and important crops would not grow.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
21 May 2025
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Men on electric scooters zoomed past a square where prisoners used to be beheaded, now a few blocks away from a gleaming new metro station.—
Vivian Nereim,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
Verb
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Accruing interest that makes balances balloon over time.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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That stroke of fortune helped Verstappen build up a seemingly insurmountable lead which ballooned out to 18 seconds at one point.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
18 May 2025
Verb
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These changes would close doors for exactly the kinds of students California has pledged to uplift.—
Cipriano Vargas,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 May 2025
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This gem detailing the ancient underground aqueducts of Rome gives both a visual and historical account of man’s insatiable appetite to overcome nature and create astonishing engineering marvels to uplift the human condition.—
Smithsonian magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 May 2025
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“Blastoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blastoff. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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