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Example sentences for: launched

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The Clinton administration eventually launched a large-scale set of air strikes against Iraq, Operation Desert Fox, in December 1998.
Sputnik was launched on Oct. 4, 1957--the first man-made object to orbit Earth.
El País of Madrid led on Schröder but devoted its main editorial to the "miracle" by which all European countries with the exception of Greece had met the economic criteria for taking part in a single European currency, which will now be launched on schedule next year.
On April 12, 1961, Vostok 1 launched the first human into space.
Is this the reference group that launched a thousand ships?