boosters

plural of booster

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of boosters The task force wondered why a sports facility at a state university wouldn’t be funded by state appropriations and university boosters’ clubs. — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026 Manufacturers must produce hardware faster, ground crews must prepare missions in parallel, and reusable boosters must return to service efficiently. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026 But rather than hail this trend as proof of AI’s skyrocketing potential, many in the field — skeptics and boosters alike — take it as evidence that benchmarking itself has become fatally flawed. — Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 While SpaceX has successfully recovered a trio of Super Heavy boosters using the mechanical arms of its Starbase launch tower, the company has yet to return a Starship upper stage to its launch site under its own power. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026 That was the sentiment for Republican officials in Tulare County, where local economic boosters hope to see housing growth as people leave the state’s more expensive coast. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026 Penn State fans and boosters though, might already be regretting their program's big reset. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 The anti-catalog exposed, after the fact of the Bicentennial, the grotesqueries of corporate beneficence and private boosters that had supplemented the government’s project. — Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 There are hopes among boosters of the federal incentive that it can be attached to a year-end government funding bill, with the current legislation running out on that date. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boosters
Noun
  • Currently not even the strongest proponents of the Many Worlds interpretation agree on how to answer these questions.
    — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The No campaign accused measure proponents of misusing the state office.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • One section of bleachers directly behind the lectern and in the eye of the cameras was filled with supporters who looked young enough to be Florida Gulf Coast undergrads.
    — Christopher Spata, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026
  • On Saturday, both are expected to take tens of thousands of supporters to the streets of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in their last effort before the runoff.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • In March 2026, two presidential commissions recommended that the evictions continue in order to protect wildlife, in a process that included few Maasai, Indigenous peoples’ advocates at the Oakland Institute reported.
    — David Ginsburg, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
  • That's one reason Levin, along with many other public school advocates, continues to push back against the tax credit.
    — Cory Turner, NPR, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Boosters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boosters. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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