satellite

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Recent Examples of satellite Billionaire Elon Musk's satellite service SpaceX was also approved to receive around $416,000. Arkansas Online, 28 Apr. 2026 Broadcasting and telecommunications encompass radio and television services (including terrestrial broadcasting, cable, and satellite), telephony and wireless networks, and online streaming services. Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026 Six people familiar with the damage told NBC News that runways, high-end radar systems, dozens of aircraft, warehouses, command headquarters, aircraft hangars and satellite communications infrastructure had been hit by Iranian forces. Tara Suter, The Hill, 27 Apr. 2026 Indeed, a Falcon Heavy was supposed to launch on Monday (April 27), carrying the ViaSat-3 F3 communications satellite to orbit, but bad weather nixed that plan. Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for satellite
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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
  • In a 1916 study, Navy soldiers seemed to better learn Morse code when it was played overnight.
    Shayla Love, New Yorker, 1 May 2026
  • Ryan shot back, quoting a soldier from the CBS report, that telling the truth is important.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Your president and his minions spread war, chaos, lies and economic instability.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Scott Quigley, a loyal minion of yet another septuagenarian Democrat hack DA, Marian Ryan of Middlesex County.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Lydon, who served as a Peruvian missionary with the pope during the 1990s, recalled his friend collecting signatures on petitions urging an end to human rights violations under an authoritarian regime.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • In the late eighteen-hundreds, American missionaries in Korea converted thousands of people.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • When the newlyweds arrive home, they are attacked by Naz and his henchman (played by Matt Willig).
    Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Key witnesses in the government’s case included Spann’s top henchmen, who cooperated with prosecutors in hopes for leniency.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Republicans in Congress have become spineless sycophants to a president who only sees the beauty of this country in dollar signs.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Will any other sycophants in his cult get the message?
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Scientology is a religious group shrouded in privacy that has garnered attention for its celebrity adherents, including Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
    Joe Kottke, NBC news, 3 May 2026
  • He’d been struck that the Milwaukee branch of the adherents to his cause were forever boasting about their superior sanitation systems.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026

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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 8 May. 2026.

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