flagship

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Recent Examples of flagship The new sites will join the flagship Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas. ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025 What about Live Local, Florida’s flagship housing affordability policy? Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025 Saudi Arabia’s flagship investment event has named headline speakers for its October conference, showing that the kingdom continues to draw in some of the biggest names in global business and finance. Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025 After all, if Nexstar and Sinclair decline to clear some of ABC’s flagship shows, that will definitely have an impact on any affiliate renewals — and other stations may be waiting in the wings to take over. Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flagship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flagship
Noun
  • The main idea is that the sudden appearance of the animal scares away any predator or unwanted interloper, much like the decloaking of a warship in a science fiction show.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Nerves jangled further on Wednesday when German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told his country’s parliament, the Bundestag, that Russia continued to test the line and overflew a German warship in recent days.
    Matthew Bodner, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The 410-foot-long, 72-year-old ship offers the largest cross-lake passenger service on the Great Lakes and an authentic steamship experience, its website says.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • So Gabriela and her companion set off on a steamship headed to Altamira.
    Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But the true spectacle, his essence, is watching Hardy barge to an absurd-but-revealing 485 yards after contact and what that’s creating.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Shell said the project is needed because of infrastructure growth in the region, such as the Interstate 49 expansion, which will lead to an increase in barge traffic.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The bi-level superliner cars offer a higher vantage point, Magliari said.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024
  • With daily departures from Chicago Union station, the superliner service rumbles through Illinois chasing mile after mile of golden-red corn fields before thudding over the Mississippi river into Iowa.
    Monisha Rajesh, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • Running a day late, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo freighter pulled alongside the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering more than 5 tons of supplies and experiments to the lab's seven-person crew.
    Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The Cygnus team overcame that problem, however, and got the freighter on track for a one-day-late rendezvous.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Based on their hull numbers, the Russian vessels were the Pacific Fleet's missile cruiser Varyag and the corvette Gromkiy.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This can all quickly change if the Navy gets real about their fuel demands, acknowledges the Pacific will be contested, and confronts the looming logistical challenge of keeping vast numbers of autonomous corvettes and other small support craft operational in a conflict.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Police cruiser hayrides are back this year, along with many other exciting activities.
    Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The Russian submarine was accompanied by the cruiser Varyag—identified by its hull number—and a rescue tug.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The mission architecture included OOR, consisting of multiple tanker vehicles launched to service a refueling depot in LEO.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Other agencies would also be involved in trying to determine whether the company that owned the tanker had complied with regulations.
    Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Flagship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagship. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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