Teyonah Parris

I had been getting relaxers since I was eight or nine. I had no clue. It was a personal mission to really find out who am when I'm not altering myself to look like anybody else. Who am I when I wake up and I don't do anything to my hair? Who is that woman? I want to meet her. And that was what catapulted my journey into going natural.

American Actress

Heather Mac Donald

The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of minority college students, it just redistributes them to schools for which they are actually qualified, rather than catapulting them into academic environments where they will inevitably struggle.

American Editor

Drew Barrymore

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

Tim Cope

Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family - which had felt like another lifetime - into the present.

Australian Author

Chris Murphy

Our nation, in a short quarter-millennium, catapulted itself to global preeminence by solving the world's greatest problems and exporting those solutions to the rest of the world.

American Politician

Ann Reinking

When I did 'Goodtime Charley' that helped a great deal, but 'Dancin' was such a huge hit. It catapulted me in to being a consistent principal to count on.

Winnie Harlow

I don't really talk about 'ANTM,' although I'm very grateful for it, as it was the platform that allowed me to catapult to where I should have been.

Canadian Model

Aquaria

For me, I went into 'Drag Race' wanting to further catapult my career, to travel around the world, and perform for all my fans.

American

Ivory

Looking back, it was really cool to be a person that helped catapult the women's division to become what it was.

American Wrestler

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

American Activist

Often associated with medieval and ancient warfare.

Historical Usage

Can be used metaphorically to describe rapid events.

Metaphorical Use

Refers to a physical structure, not a figurative concept.

Physical Object

Illustrates abrupt changes or advancements.

Sudden Change

Often implies a positive and beneficial development.

Positive Connotation

Emphasizes the immediacy of an action or event.

Instant Impact

Conveys a sense of using force to project something.

Forceful Action

Usually followed by a preposition indicating direction.

Directional Movement

Can imply aggression or intense force in an action.

Aggressive Tone

 in our lives between the way we experience great failure and the way we experience great success. So think of it like For most of your life, you live out your existence here in the middle of the chain of human experience where everything is normal and reassuring and regular, but failure catapults you abruptly way out over here

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 In Shakespeare's canon, we see Hamlet's indecisiveness lead to a series of bad decisions, or perhaps non-decisions, that culminate in the death of almost every character in the play, and Macbeth's ambition catapults him to the top before sending him careening to his grave.

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 Just going to try to put them in shapes and push on them and stuff. And before long, he's kind of got this mechanism where you can almost launch and catapult objects around, and he enlists us in helping him. And at this point, I'm starting to wonder,

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 rely on glasses for maintaining their lives. And there's lots of other objects in our society that have been created to help overcome various physical obstacles. And it's only the eyeglasses that have catapulted to that fashion statement.

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 Ideas were flowing with more freedom and speed. And I experienced the miracle of human innovation and cooperation, and my own creativity, when supported by the resourcefulness of this collective endeavor, catapulted me into superstardom.

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 I clawed begged my way into an entry-level job in the display department and you know I was happy to be surrounded by kindred spirits to be in this freaky little display studio I never imagined it would take me catapult

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 to power devices as small as smartphones and laptops and as large as electric vehicles. The versatility of lithium has helped catapult many technological developments

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 Economic expansion, urbanization, and a lack of medical knowledge contributed to the disastrous spread of plague. In turn, however, the disease helped catapult

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 downward momentum catapults it back up again like a roller coaster into the lift of the faster air it's called dynamic soaring

Catapult

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