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sent up

adjective as in orbited

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The Western figures intent on racking up trading victories are hilariously sent up in “Please Hello,” a Gilbert and Sullivan inspired number that nonetheless maintains the Japanese point of view on these bullying capitalists.

His Cyrano is the play’s hero, even if the character’s psychological limitations are as much a factor in the story as the machinations of De Guiche, whose malignity is sent up in Nathanson’s flamboyantly comic turn.

Now the buzz comes from a Ukrainian unmanned aircraft which has not been sent up to kill, but to relay footage from the training ground to commanders back at base.

From BBC

It’s been reported that Ukraine sent up to 10,000 elite troops into Russia as part of its rapid advance.

From BBC

Atlanta’s two newspapers hustled to become the first to broadcast radio programs, and about a month before The Times went on the air with KHJ, the Atlanta Journal sent up a radio transmission on WSB.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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