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Recent Examples of launcher
Like SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, the Blue Origin launcher features a reusable first stage.
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Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
At one point, a character is forced to stand in front of an automatic football launcher and take a series of pigskins to the cranium, each of which is shot at him with increasing speed.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Rombough, accused of illegally shooting people with his launcher, pleaded guilty and became a government’s witness.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Apple has deprecated Launchpad in macOS 26 and replaced it with the Apps launcher in the Dock.
—Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
At one point, a character is forced to stand in front of an automatic football launcher and take a series of pigskins to the cranium, each of which is shot at him with increasing speed.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Rombough, accused of illegally shooting people with his launcher, pleaded guilty and became a government’s witness.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Apple has deprecated Launchpad in macOS 26 and replaced it with the Apps launcher in the Dock.
—Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for launcher
Noun
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These are fed through a hopper into the reactor vessel to produce a self-regulating fission reaction and are cooled by helium gas that carries off the heat to a heat exchanger to generate steam for electrical generators.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Oct. 2025
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This forces the liquid through a bidirectional turbine that drives a generator.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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The Ram's driver, Kolton Blees, 30, of Pearcy was injured, the report says.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Oct. 2025
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The last American driver to win an F1 race was Mario Andretti in the late 1970s.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Aryubi, who splits his time between Afghanistan and California, plays the role of would-be executor, while Jake Youngblood Dobbs, an American travel influencer who was on a tour with Raza at the time, is the ersatz victim whom Aryubi unveils.—
T. M. Brown,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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The movie is produced by co-executors of the Michael Jackson estate, John Branca and John McClain, and stars Paris' cousin Jaafar Jackson, 29, as the late pop star.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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After the crash, the SUV was reportedly struck by a tractor-trailer that was traveling in the right lane behind the vehicle.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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The child was found by her mother three hours later, with internal vehicle temperatures having reached over 108 degrees.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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While sympathetic to conservative institutional media, federal law agencies did not often make moves based on posts from the nascent right wing creator class.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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The Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency is not so fortunate, said Renee Pertile, early childhood director at the agency.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Whatever the trigger was, to prevent recurrence of the calamity, degassing facilities were installed at Lakes Monoun and Nyos to remove the continual buildup of carbon dioxide gas.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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Pregnancy is another major trigger, as the growing uterus puts pressure on pelvic veins and pregnancy hormones relax blood vessel walls.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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That story about the bet is true — but that was just a catalyst.—
Gavin J Blair,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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Developed by researchers from Adelaide University, the method is a universal and scalable to upcycle common plastics — including PET, PVC, polyethylene and polypropylene and their mixtures — into single-atom catalysts (SACs).—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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Despite the star power in the stands, the Dodgers lost 6-1, meaning the Blue Jays tied the series.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Both outcomes might also blunt the risk of further great-power escalation in this deeply chaotic geopolitical time.—
Mira Rapp-Hooper,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Launcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/launcher. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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