catapult
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This year’s debates have done little to catapult anyone to the top, and tonight was more of the same.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Murphy, who delighted fans with a walkabout in Centenary Square on his arrival at Symphony Hall, paid tribute to the viewers who helped catapult Peaky Blinders into a worldwide hit.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
Incorporating Greenland, which has 57,000 people, would catapult the United States past China and Canada to be the world's second largest country in land mass after Russia.
From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026
“It’s about how it might catapult you into the future.”
From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025
Brian explained how we could make a catapult, like the medieval ones we’d read about, by piling rocks on the mattress and rigging it with ropes looped over tree branches.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Vocabulary lists containing catapult
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