satellite

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Recent Examples of satellite During the trip, Musk said Saudi Arabia has approved Starlink, the satellite internet service owned and operated by SpaceX, for aviation and maritime use in the region. Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 14 May 2025 Starlink is the satellite internet service owned and operated by Musk’s aerospace and defense contractor, SpaceX. SpaceX recently began offering its Starlink hardware for free outside the U.S. in a bid to win new subscribers. Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 13 May 2025 As of June 2023, EU member airlines have been required to equip their aircraft with special network equipment that uses a satellite network to keep passengers connected. Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2025 However, many of those satellites have stopped functioning, and many are actually spent rocket stages that boosted satellites into orbit. Mike Decaire, Twin Cities, 11 May 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
  • Pantoliano’s character, Angelo, was a soldier in the infantry, stationed in Hawaii in 1941.
    Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 19 May 2025
  • Named by Variety as one of 10 Spanish directors to watch in 2022, Azorín delivers a dual-timeline narrative set in Roman baths, where a 21st-century boy shares a hot bath with a 1st-century Roman soldier, both reflecting on their own frailty.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Besides being massively ignorant, Musk and his minions are drunk on ideology.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • Through their minions in the media, in Big Pharma, and woke teachers manipulating their children's minds, these elites hold an iron grip on society.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Shawn reluctantly agrees, but is humiliated when Cory starts acting corny around his friend Gambling Dan (Phil Buckman), and his lackey, Louie (Weiss).
    EW.com, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • While Israel and its lackeys in Washington, D.C. blame Hamas for the breakdown, the opposite is true.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary was raised in south suburban Dolton and earned his master’s in divinity from Chicago Theological Union.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2025
  • Peruvians remember the young American priest who became pope Prevost, who lived in Peru as a missionary in the 1980s and the 1990s, would have heard about these accounts while serving as Bishop of Chiclayo starting in 2014, especially following the publication of Ugaz and Salinas’ bombshell book.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Before the mole can get much info from her mark, however, top Harrigan henchman Paul (Emmett J. Scanlan) arrives.
    EW.com, EW.com, 11 May 2025
  • In a parked car, erotic dancer Ani (Mikey Madison) straddles Igor (Yura Borisov), the Russian henchman who’s been her undesired shadow for a couple of very long, very stressful days.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The administration may be populated with sycophants and true believers, but Justice Department attorneys and Homeland Security officials are not stupid.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
  • There are still sycophants and acolytes, but no savvy producers to make his head-scratching moves appear to make sense.
    Laura Bassett, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Its adherents numbered in the tens of thousands in 2018 and surged to millions by 2020.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
  • She was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, and left Russia with many other adherents of Hasidism on the famous escape trains to Poland.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025

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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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