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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blasting off
taking off
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At least seven people are dead and 11 injured after a UPS plane crashed after taking off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF) on Tuesday evening.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025 -
What to know As Wallace’s career was taking off, so was the oil boom.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Blasting off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blasting%20off. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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