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launcher

noun

Definition of launcher

as in generator

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Recent Examples of launcher China launched one of its most successful rockets Thursday, sending a Long March 3B launcher to orbit with a Tianlian data relay support to link Mission Control with the country’s Tiangong space station. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026 Tang and co-founder Joe Hollier noted the OS is designed to be less stimulating, from its monochrome appearance to the launcher that simply displays a list of tools rather than expressive app icons. — New Atlas, 22 July 2026 That launcher was originally designed to transport crews and cargo to low-Earth orbit destinations such as China’s Tiangong space station. — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 July 2026 On Monday, Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force announced the deployment of a Type-12 missile launcher on the southernmost remote island of Minamitorishima, an apparent response to China’s growing activity expanding into the Pacific. — ABC News, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for launcher

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Noun

Voyager 2 and its twin launched in 1977, called Voyager 1, rely on a form of nuclear battery known as a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that uses the heat produced by the decay of plutonium.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The linear generator turns heat into electricity using a flameless, low-temperature oxidation process.

— Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of generator

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Pat Houston, Whitney Houston’s sister-in-law, former manager, and now the executor of her estate, confirmed to Vanity Fair that the lack of a Cinderella album was a great heartbreak of Houston’s career.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026
That longer period can be helpful when no beneficiary is designated for the stock options and a personal representative/executor needs to be appointed during the probate process.

— Bruce Brumberg, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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Also in the parade ranks were new uncrewed submersible vehicles – underwater drones, stealthy in their own right, that could pose a threat to any of Beijing’s adversaries.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Hardware learns signal speeds The approach could be useful in systems that need to process changing data locally, including autonomous vehicles, robots and wearable devices.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2026

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The agency predicted strong winds, heavy rain and high waves in the Okinawa region through Sunday, urging residents in the area to stay indoors.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
In many ways, staffers say, the shooting was a manifestation of an attack the agency was already feeling.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

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What used to be just a one-button trigger to call up an app has evolved into a multi-button, multi-input device for supervising and orchestrating multiple AI tools and agents at once.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 3 Aug. 2026
Approve the pull request, trigger pipelines in unrelated projects, copy confidential wiki pages into a comment where the attacker could collect them.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of trigger

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The catalyst slowly broke down the hydrogen peroxide to produce oxygen.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026
But Mizuho echoes JPMorgan's positive view, choosing Walmart as a top pick in late July, and repeating an overweight investment opinion, citing improvements in its delivery network amomng other catalysts.

— Assiatou Hann, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of catalyst

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