launch
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Its launch follows other leading AI firms selling their own branded merchandise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
A minor league team plans to launch in Irvine next year, and the entrepreneur behind it is pitching it as a way to provide fans with a taste of Asian baseball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The Asian Tour partnered with LIV in 2021 prior to the launch of the breakaway league the following year.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
When a massive star explodes as a supernova, for example, the blast can launch the stellar remnant in one direction at high speed.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
At first, I was so mad at Mom because she didn’t let me stay home to watch the launch with her.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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They expect 3,543 launches of the 400-foot rocket in 2031, with about nine in 10 for the purpose of Musk’s proposed orbital data centers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
SpaceX and the California Coastal Commission have settled a lawsuit over the state agency’s attempts to regulate rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
When it was released in 2016, Pokémon Go quickly became one of the biggest mobile game launches in history.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Still, people seem to be rushing to scoop these preorders up, despite the insistence by some that preorders should be avoided given the disastrous launches of games like “Cyberpunk 2077” and “No Man’s Sky.”
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Mama nods, and Drake launches himself forward and grabs the plate of bacon like he hasn’t had food in a hundred years.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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A lobbying website bearing the same name has also been launched.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
An urgent investigation has been launched by Nigeria's environmental agency after a strange white foamy substance appeared on a major highway, sparking a public spectacle and raising safety concerns.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The team would play in the Pioneer League, the independent league in which Freedman and his partners previously launched teams in Oakland and Long Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
A year before Sire Records founder Seymour Stein coined the term “new wave” to describe the pop-flavored punk bands emerging in 1977, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers had already launched the movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It’s the only time I know of when a rotten egg was launched by a sling-shot.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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Meehan recalls the biggest hurdle to launching the segments at ABC was the language explaining the arrangement to viewers — making it clear that the network stands to benefit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Iran did not immediately confirm launching the attack, but the US embassy in Amman had earlier warned its citizens of a "specific and credible threat" targeting Aqaba's port and airport.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
He and his team have spent three years planning and developing The Lost Feather, one of five new shows launching at the Kynren site in July.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
A Defense Department agreement would mark the latest deal between SpaceX and the Pentagon, which relies on the company for launching rockets and managing satellites for communications and missile tracking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The very substantial financial investment involved in backing and launching an insecticide may be swept away as the insects prove once more that the effective approach to nature is not through brute force.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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