launch
verb (used with object)
to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
are launching
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present progressiveof launch.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Plus, federal regulators are launching a probe into agricultural-equipment markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The 40-year-old is part of a class of entrepreneurs who are launching, and then often running, new companies on their own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Schemes elsewhere in the UK are launching without glass to keep costs down and simplify cross-border systems.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Both entities are launching this new chapter from a position of financial health, according to Cavanagh.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
I would like to stay around for the speaking in tongues, should it occur, but the mosquitoes, worked into a frenzy by all this talk of His blood, are launching a full-scale attack.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
