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propel

verb as in throw; release into air

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And the companies and investors spending hundreds of billions on AI-related infrastructure are helping boost the economy: The government’s most recent GDP report showed AI spending propelled economic growth while consumer spending stagnated.

A $10-million campaign to raise California’s minimum wage, part of a plan to propel him to the governor’s mansion or maybe even the White House, was heading for defeat.

But when the Cold War propelled the U.S. to seek technological dominance on Earth and beyond, it was JPL that developed the U.S.’ first successful satellite, Explorer 1, designed to study cosmic rays.

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Experts have in recent years argued that China must shift towards an economic model propelled more by domestic consumption as opposed to infrastructure investment and exports -- long key drivers of growth.

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Goldman’s profits are increasingly being propelled by its growing presence in the world of financing.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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