launching platform
Example Sentences
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At that point, it seemed as if West might be permanently decentering himself, or at least using his success primarily as a launching platform for others.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021
One summer, I became obsessed with the idea of actually seeing the famed fireworks shoot skyward from their protected launching platform in a backstage industrial area.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2019
The NBC reality series is widely considered to be the true launching platform for Trump’s political career, but it also gave Manigault a long career as one of unscripted television’s most famous villains.
From Salon • Oct. 10, 2016
In the picture, the complicated structure to the left of the rising rocket is a "gantry": a staging from which technicians can reach all parts of the rocket as it stands on its launching platform.
From Time Magazine Archive
The space-ship Viking—two hundred feet of gleaming metal and polished duralite—lay on the launching platform of New York City's municipal airport.
From The Golden Amazons of Venus by Reynolds, John Murray
