Launch
Touch off
Touch off verb - To cause to function.
Usage example: his obscene comment touched off a heated debate about the need for censorship on live broadcasts
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Seventeen years after its launch, its orbit is decaying, and the Russians are being surprisingly insistent on having the satellite fixed, saying that its loss could cause a catastrophic breakdown in Russian communications, and at worse, touch off a civil war.
Source: Film / Space Cowboys
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