satellite

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Recent Examples of satellite Elon Musk is bringing his pioneering business style to the IPO world this week when his rocket and satellite maker SpaceX goes public, in ways that no other company has. Manya Saini, USA Today, 8 June 2026 Among South Florida’s biggest television providers, WPLG is available on Comcast, DirecTV satellite and Breezeline. Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 8 June 2026 The channel currently is in place on Xfinity, DirecTV satellite and Breezeline, among other South Florida providers. Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 June 2026 Rodriguez said seat pockets and cabinets nearby were full of the essentials, such as the satellite phone and radio. New Atlas, 6 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for satellite
Recent Examples of Synonyms for satellite
Noun
  • 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
  • Republican politicians have been calling on Biden to curb inflation, but there isn’t much a president can really do except raise taxes, which of course the GOP and their Democratic camp follower Joe Manchin oppose.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 July 2022
Noun
  • Video has emerged that appears to counter the Israeli military’s account of an incident in which a soldier opened fire on a car carrying a family and killed their 7-month-old baby Sam Abu Haikal.
    Sarah Dean, NBC news, 12 June 2026
  • American soldiers liberated the camp months later, finding Haller at just 55 pounds and very sick.
    Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • The castle is the heart of Eternia and houses a great power — one that must be protected from Skeletor and his minions.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
  • The evil force of Skeletor (Jared Leto), a bad bad man with no face, brings his minions in and sets off non-stop destruction.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • After Wally springs her from the Shaw's clutches, the group manages to lure the couple and some of their lackeys into the makeshift particle accelerator trap that former engineer Sam built out of old cathode-ray tube TVs.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 21 May 2026
  • That means, of course, she’s now been phased out of her role as a factory lackey in dystopian near-future Brazil due to her age.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Friends described Boelter as an evangelical Christian and occasional preacher and missionary who held politically conservative views and had been struggling to find work.
    Tim Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • Stafford, a medical missionary with the mission organization Serge, was transferred to Germany and treated at Berlin's Charite University Hospital.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • Launched in early 1982, the original MOTU line-up saw He-Man and Skeletor joined by heroes Teela (at this point, the only female character), Man-at-Arms and Stratos; the morally ambiguous Zodac; and a couple of Skeletor's henchmen, Beast Man and Mer-Man.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 June 2026
  • The remoteness of their surroundings is no accident; one of these characters is fleeing an inconvenient past, which returns with a vengeance in the form of a beefy sadist (Benoît Magimel) and his two hostage-taking henchmen.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups.
    Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026
  • Trump’s worried sycophants probably know that the details of an eventual agreement likely do not matter very much at this point.
    Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
Noun
  • Its adherents promote terrorism and sabotage to incite a race war and to bring about social collapse.
    Odette Yousef, NPR, 27 May 2026
  • And most of today’s Esperanto adherents are neither naïve nor even particularly batty.
    Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026

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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.

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