satellite

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Recent Examples of satellite The British Beagle 2 lander was lost upon landing, only to be discovered in satellite images in 2015. Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 30 June 2025 The satellite data also gives forecasters a chance to watch out for eyewall replacement cycles. Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 30 June 2025 Payloads included two satellites for the Missile Defense Agency to track hypersonic missiles and four more satellites for the Tranche 0 constellation for the Space Development Agency. Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2025 After becoming a hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean early on June 18, the storm continued to organize throughout the day, forming a clear eye on satellite images, the National Hurricane Center said. Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for satellite
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Noun
  • Suspicion quickly flared into insurgency, and when the British pulled out of Kabul in 1842 with a convoy of 16,000 troops and camp followers, only a single survivor (the assistant surgeon William Brydon) reached the border town of Jalalabad alive.
    Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011
  • The women in the sketch were part of a controversial group known as camp followers: wives, widows, runaways and others who marched with the Continental Army.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • His Telegram channel, followed by around half a million users, regularly features narrated footage of drones tracking and killing Russian soldiers.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • The biggest revelation in both movies is that throughout the war Lucas had heroin shipped to the U.S. from Vietnam in coffins containing dead soldiers.
    Steve Bloom, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Her niftiest fight sequence looks like abstract art: a stark black-and-white aerial pan of her shadow battling minions down a hallway.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
  • Negan banished him and seized control of the Dama’s minions.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • And is order based on legalized violence and theft really order? Bulgakov would have had little time for a Bolshevik lackey like Samson.
    Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025
  • Orwell’s warnings apply across the board, not just when obvious despots and lackeys let their fascist flags fly.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Prevost spent two decades as a missionary and bishop in Peru and would well know those arguments.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
  • When the Catholic and Anglican churches began sending waves of missionaries to the legendary islands in the nineteenth century, their interactions with native populations produced more stories of biblical heritage, which local preachers passed down from generation to generation.
    Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Before her family arrives, Bree tries to shoot Grady, but once Grady’s henchman captures Diller, she’s forced to make a choice: drop the gun or watch her son die.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 21 June 2025
  • In a moment of sly genius, Duke gained entry by concealing himself as one of Lyle’s ghostly henchmen using a rubber band and a piece of white tissue as his disguise.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Conservative media, once a proud home to voices like Charles Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg, and Bill Kristol, now platforms ignorant Trump sycophants who have no use for conservative principles — or principles of any kind.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
  • Hitler surrounded himself with sycophants, had zero tolerance for dissent and demanded unwavering loyalty.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • All this is part of the larger belief that only adherents belonging to religious traditions that arose in the Indian subcontinent are authentically Indian.
    ASHLEY J. TELLIS, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
  • The overall growth in the world’s Jewish population did not increase their proportion of the world’s religious adherents because of the much faster growth in other populations.
    Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025

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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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