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
  • Last month, senior Moscow officials attended the inauguration of a war memorial complex in Pyongyang, where soldiers fighting for Russia were honored and a message from Putin was read aloud.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 5 June 2026
  • Four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire.
    Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Aniello, who directed both bookend episodes, replicates her own long, dynamic shot from the series premiere, which tracks Deborah from the closing joke of her zillionth Vegas set, through a backstage warren of minions and admirers, to her dressing room.
    Judy Berman, Time, 29 May 2026
  • Your president and his minions spread war, chaos, lies and economic instability.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 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
  • Italian Jesuit missionary Felipe Salvador Gilij, who lived along the Orinoco River in Venezuela in the mid-18th century, is considered the first to document Indigenous leaf-wrapping practices.
    Sophia Rey, JSTOR Daily, 28 May 2026
  • Citizens turned away Already, two American doctors working as Christian missionaries in the DRC have been sent elsewhere for care.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 27 May 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
  • 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
  • Instead of holding events around Los Angeles to convince skeptics that his mayoral campaign is for everyone, the former reality television bad boy has bunkered himself inside an echo chamber of sycophants, friendly podcasters and milquetoast media outlets.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 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 11 Jun. 2026.

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