propelled
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It also propelled Parton into a level of fame beyond country music, where she could remind the world again and again that, like so many people, “I look one way and am another.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Evergrande was once China's leading property developer, propelled by decades of rapid urbanisation and rising living standards across the country.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Booming trading and listing activity in Hong Kong propelled the city’s exchange operator to another record quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
That object was later identified as part of China’s Long March 3C rocket, which propelled the Chang’e 5-T1 mission around the moon in 2014.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
If always propelled my thoughts back to the present, because if depended so much on keeping my wits about me.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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