BASH - Launch App with arguments

I'm trying to write a simple BASH script that will laungh an program, but that program needs command line arguments.
When I put it in quotes it says it can't find the file, if I don't use quotes then it won't run the program with the command line arguments. How can I launch a program using a BASH script with command line arguments?
Thanks in advance

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