propel
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Raising pine trees helped families hold on to land without more intensive farming and it helped propel forestry and related manufacturing into the rural South’s dominant industries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Fight Agency is known for making some of the slick videos that helped propel Mamdani’s campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Lead author and sport and exercise technology expert Dr. Cody Lindsay says the ankle is essential for maintaining balance while also helping propel the body forward.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Super Micro had said in a preliminary report last month that it saw new orders reach more than $60 billion in the June quarter, helping propel its backlog to record levels for fiscal 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Certain conditions propel a stream of dry air from the mountains to the shoreline.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Ultimately, the company may deserve it if the AI story propels high growth for longer.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
"It certainly propels you into a world of uncertainty. Life priorities realign - you simply want to survive."
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
From a tour that, according to Springsteen, was not planned, it will be interesting to see what direction this propels him in next.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
SpaceX’s Starship is designed to be the most powerful rocket ever built, consisting of a booster that propels a large spacecraft into space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
With one push she swings the door open and propels us into the stirring city street.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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It also propelled Parton into a level of fame beyond country music, where she could remind the world again and again that, like so many people, “I look one way and am another.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Evergrande was once China's leading property developer, propelled by decades of rapid urbanisation and rising living standards across the country.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
That object was later identified as part of China’s Long March 3C rocket, which propelled the Chang’e 5-T1 mission around the moon in 2014.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Toy Story 5” box office performance and theme park revenue growth propelled Disney shares 3.6%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
I propelled Charlie toward the tank, and she watched the lobsters as intently as I used to.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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The younger McCreary was the propelling wordsmith on “One Fine Day.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
All told, the Red Sox are a major league-best 19-2 since June 25, propelling them from the abyss and into a wild-card spot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Alibaba on Wednesday saw its best single share-price gain in 10 months, as the broader Chinese tech sector revved higher after missing the rally propelling U.S.,
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
So rising property values were propelling people into millionaire status.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Then I leap, throwing every ounce of muscle into propelling myself through the air.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Vocabulary lists containing propel
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 12–15
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