booster

By the 1920s and ‘30s, L.A. wells were supplying more than a quarter of the world’s oil appetite. The Uplifters booster club sang its official drinking song: “Yes, it’s oil oil oil/that makes L.A. boil!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The trick with thrusters was evocative of what SpaceX has now been doing for years with booster rockets cruising back to earth, touching down in landing pads or being snared by launch towers.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Ely is looking at installing small booster cells on lamp-posts, which would cost less than a mast and not interfere with the city's landscape.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The huge first-stage booster, called "Super Heavy," will fall shortly after launch into waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

I guess the dead didn’t have to worry about little hazards like being speared by stalactites the size of booster rockets.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

The bill was supported by the California News Publishers Assn., of which the Los Angeles Times is a member and a wide range of other community news boosters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

In many cases, an athlete’s pay is now a combination of revenue-sharing money and endorsement deals that can include money flowing from boosters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Most estrangement experts point to social media, and especially TikTok, as one of the biggest boosters of the trend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Thefts in L.A. were already surging when Milwaukee-based boosters launched their “Kia Boys” videos in the summer of 2021, and had begun to level off by time the meme hit national news a year later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

They would leave the field house and waiting outside for them would be a haze of boosters and parents and Pepettes and cheerleaders.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger