as in to take off
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Recent Examples of blastoff
Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024
The countdown began months ago at Voodoo Brewing Co. in Meridian, but now things are nearing blastoff.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 2 May 2024
Zack Meisel, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Schwarber opened the scoring in the first inning with a blast off the second deck in right field — his 54th home run of the season.
—Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Each day, there are Big Top performances at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., with a human cannonball blastoff at 1:45 p.m.
Admission costs $23 for teens and adults, $20 for seniors (ages 65 and up) and $15 for children (ages 5-12).
—Verb
Three days earlier, Rocchio had ended Cleveland’s regular season with a three-run blast off the right-field foul pole, a walk-off homer that propelled the club into postseason mode.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for blastoff
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Monday's launch was SpaceX's fifth for the year out of 615 over the history of the company.—
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Since launch, mission teams have guided the observatory steadily toward L1.—
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To their surprise, the video quickly took off, reaching over 22 million viewers.—
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Now, but as the statistics and figures come in here in Minneapolis, there's double-digit drops in crime, coupled with a lot of bad people and bad things being taken off of your streets.—
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The story centers on Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) and later his son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) as they get pulled into the Grid, a fully digital universe where programs have minds of their own and lightcycles zoom along through luminous tracks.—
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Police saw the thieves zooming off in getaway vehicles.—
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That deficit will continue to balloon without serious structural changes to programs already passed into law.—
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The state has been consistently strapped for cash over the past two years, driven in particular by ballooning Medicaid costs.—
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Since its founding, Bush Hager has uplifted books from across genres, as well as new and established authors alike.—
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The event originally started out at Camp North End as an effort put together by Charlotte creatives including artist Dammit Wesley to uplift and showcase Black culture and talent.—
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“Blastoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blastoff. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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