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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lanch .
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Examples
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Insta-lanched here, so I'll try to share an evil white male perspective on this fascinating conversation!
If Spike Lee had directed Avatar..? Steven Barnes 2009
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No. Remember that the Soviets were winning before America lanched its massive covert intervention in Afghanistan.
William Bradley: Barack Obama's War: 10 Key Things To Know 2009
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The Flowering Teas are their specialty, and Numi has just lanched a gorgeaous new exoctic line of these specialty teas.
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The Flowering Teas are their specialty, and Numi has just lanched a gorgeaous new exoctic line of these specialty teas.
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For, now the shore was full of armed people, who came in rescue of the stolne Ladies: but all in vaine, because they were lanched into the main, and sayled on merrily towards Candye.
The Decameron 2004
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Lady were received into the Ship, but his companions returned backe againe; when the Mariners, having their sailes ready set, and the winde aptly fitting for them, lanched forth merrily into the maine.
The Decameron 2004
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Your Aunt lanched out in praise of his Friend, and you vaunted
The Monk 2004
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To be short, sending certaine spies, they were informed that Godred remained secure with a smal company in a certaine Isle called the isle of S.Colomba. 59 And vniting vnto themselues their friends and acquaintance, & others that would goe voluntarily with them, in the dead of the night, hauing lanched
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And when our boats were come to the place where our wares were laid, we lanched our boats and laded our wares againe, and went to the place before named, where we continued and remained that night.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As soon as he had done so, huge rafts of bamboo were lanched across the river, so as to cut off his retreat.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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