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Recent Examples of liftoffs
SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket now has 130 liftoffs under its belt this year.
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Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for liftoffs
Noun
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Biannual launches have become the norm for the Shenzhou program, which has in the past year reached new milestones with the deployment of Chinese astronauts born in the 1990s, a world-record spacewalk, and plans to train and send the first foreign astronaut, from Pakistan, to Tiangong next year.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
1 Nov. 2025
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SpaceX’s Starship rocket 38 launches during the 11th test flight on October 13, 2025 as seen from South Padre Island in Texas.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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At Hartsfield-Jackson alone, for instance, there are close to 800,000 movements – takeoffs or landings – each year.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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The takeoffs from the bombers' home base were also tracked by aviation enthusiasts using commercially available software to track the aircraft that initially had their transponders activated.—
Luis Martinez,
ABC News,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Liftoffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liftoffs. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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