pad
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Instead, you’re meant to feel like you’re standing on a launch pad outside.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
At the moment of liftoff, Catherine was with her children and the other astronauts' families near the launch pad in Florida.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
There was a deep rumbling as a sheet of brilliant white flame suddenly erupted, momentarily engulfing the whole launch pad as the mightiest rocket Nasa has ever built rose into the sky.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
Cavill co-founded a company that uses a wristband to predict women’s hot flashes, paired with a cooling mattress pad, so she knows a thing or two about sensors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
“Yep. Boy. Noses gush, don’t they? Looks like your glasses didn’t do you any favors, either. You have a cut there from that nose pad thing. May get a decent shiner out of it too.”
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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