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Recent Examples of satellite
The blackout occurred after the spacecraft lost line of sight to Earth, with the Moon blocking satellite communications entirely.
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Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2026
Reports and satellite images later showed large parts of the city heavily damaged or reduced to rubble.
—Maliha Rahman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
By observing the moon directly, the astronauts can quickly scan and spot lunar features that are easily missed in satellite and robot-taken images.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2026
That timeline doesn’t even consider that SpaceX has yet to launch a data center satellite from Earth.
—The Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
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Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2026
Reports and satellite images later showed large parts of the city heavily damaged or reduced to rubble.
—Maliha Rahman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
By observing the moon directly, the astronauts can quickly scan and spot lunar features that are easily missed in satellite and robot-taken images.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2026
That timeline doesn’t even consider that SpaceX has yet to launch a data center satellite from Earth.
—The Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satellite
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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
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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
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Military police are often the only armed personnel on base, outside of shooting ranges, hunting areas or in training, where soldiers can wield their service weapons without ammunition.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The village’s Black residents, including Hettie, are energized by a promising but tangled effort to redress a long-standing injustice—the unequal compensation received by Black South African soldiers in the Second World War.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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There are shooting options connected with Universal’s app, where selections include firing off steel spheres, fireballs and, as minions would have it, bananas.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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Watch for Kara's intense ocular heat ray blasts and some fancy flying while she and Lobo battle Krem and his minions off-Earth.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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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
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Trump wants Americans to believe that his opponents are of this ilk, with his lackeys casting activists as domestic terrorists for merely showing up to protests.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Houston Chronicle,
25 Mar. 2026
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They were followed in 1527 by Dominican missionaries, and eight years later a Portuguese port and trading center were established at Faifo (modern Hoi An), south of present-day Da Nang.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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In the 1800s, American missionaries journeyed to what was then called Persia.—
Daniel Thomas Potts,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
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The same is true of Sonny and Sal, his high-strung henchman.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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That is, until Krypto is poisoned by the henchmen of villain Krem of the Yellow Hills, with only three days to save him.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2026
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To start the new Mideast war, Donnie acted on his own with no resistance from his sycophants, who have no backbones.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2026
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The Republican sycophants currently in office, out of fear, won’t stand up to him.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2026
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Leftism thus constitutes an ongoing search for new causes to fight on behalf of, in a way that mobilizes adherents and creates solidarity among them.—
Bradley Gitz,
Arkansas Online,
23 Mar. 2026
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Both romantic trends have adherents who spin their retreat from status quo romance as a kind of liberation from modern expectations, and who position their marital arrangement as the logical extension of a deeper political project.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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