rocket fuel
Example Sentences
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A successful launch could give the market some much-needed rocket fuel.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Social media has been particularly unkind to teenage girls, putting rocket fuel onto the ordinary adolescent stressors of physical awkwardness, the sadness of comparison and the fireworks of inter-friendship conflicts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
The deal has given rocket fuel to AMD’s share price and the company’s ambitions to compete with rival chip designer Nvidia, which is by far the dominant competitor in the AI semiconductor industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Depending on the type of rocket fuel used, launches produce nitrogen oxides, chlorine, black carbon particles, water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide — and no propellant avoids creating of some kind of emissions.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025
“How about that, old son? Is that rocket fuel or what?”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
