Invent
Launch
Launch verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.
Usage example: after retiring, he launched a small company devoted to making medical devices
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- Halloween (1978) didn't invent the modern slasher film, but it did codify most of the tropes of the genre, launch the careers of John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis, and spawn a wave of imitators.
Source: Genre Turning Point -
And go on to invent plastics and launch a rocket into space.
Source: Mayincatec - He's the bad guy because he 'stole' the idea for Dorothy (even though it obviously wasn't patented and he helped invent it in the first place), got funding for his research, and was 'competing' with the heroes to launch his invention first.
Source: Protagonist-Centered Morality
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