flagship

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Recent Examples of flagship The flagship cryptocurrency, in roughly its eighth month of a bear market, is being squeezed from both macroeconomic and industry-specific headwinds. Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 24 June 2026 The Yellowstone spinoff series starring flagship stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser has been renewed for a second season at Paramount+. Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026 Qin Muyuan, the 31-year-old son of Chinese billionaire Qin Yinglin, today joined the board of the family flagship Muyuan Foods Group, the world’s corporate leader in hog sales by volume. Russell Flannery, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 The study was originally scheduled to be released in March in the CDC’s flagship scientific publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Aria Bendix, NBC news, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for flagship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flagship
Noun
  • Though Kim stressed the new warship was a completely domestic product, Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said the pace of shipbuilding could indicate otherwise.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • And this may be just the start for Kim, who will soon also commission the Kang Kon warship that capsized during launch last May.
    Stella Kim, NBC news, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • The original Dow index from 1884 had 11 stocks in it, and nine of them were railroads (the other two were a steamship company and Western Union).
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 15 June 2026
  • On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • In Seattle, fans can catch the matches on a floating barge or watch them live on a giant LED screen at Pier 62.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 16 June 2026
  • Officials said the fireworks will be launched from the east side of the bridge between the two towers, along with a barge off the bridge and a second barge near Pier 39.
    Tim Fang, CBS News, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Best International Narrative Feature went to Labrador — Autopsy of Silence, directed by Rodrigue Jean, which follows an Inuk mechanic who is suspected of murder on a freighter.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 June 2026
  • The 747’s fusion of aeronautical ability and symbolic power earned it many roles beyond passenger liner and freighter.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • That cruiser then hit one of the troopers who was standing outside near the trailer.
    Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • In one Facebook group, a cruiser argued that companies should be more upfront about the full cost of a trip.
    Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
Noun
  • This restored Second World War corvette is the last of its kind — and can be visited first hand.
    Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The Grammy award-winning band was followed by a dozen corvettes carrying honorees and the university's new president, Dwayne Tucker.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Paz said that the state of emergency is intended to guarantee fuel supplies, which have become increasingly scarce as roadblocks have left tanker trucks stranded.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 June 2026
  • There has been very limited demand to book tankers to load oil from ports in the Persian Gulf, a step that would need to happen for shipments from the export installations to happen, shipbrokers and tanker owners said Friday.
    Alex Longley, Fortune, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Earlier this week, Kpler estimated around 220 tankers and 500 ships were stranded in the Persian Gulf.
    Lou Robinson, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
  • Mach Industries has won a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contract to develop a long-range unmanned aircraft designed to launch from austere locations and ships without large flight decks.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026

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“Flagship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagship. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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