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Recent Examples of satellite
The United States on June 25 launched a new satellite expected to significantly improve forecasts of solar flares and coronal mass ejections — huge plasma bubbles that can crash into Earth, disrupting power grids and communications.
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Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Another one is set at the Y2k turn of the millennium and has a character who thinks he is being watched by a satellite and gets involved in a conspiracy group in the Netherlands.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026
The new data comes from audience interactions with cable and satellite set-top boxes and smart TVs across 45 million households and 75 million devices, but in recent weeks, the VAB, an industry group that works on behalf of national media companies.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
SpaceX is set to launch its latest national security mission, yet another GPS satellite that was originally to have been launched by United Launch Alliance.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
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Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Another one is set at the Y2k turn of the millennium and has a character who thinks he is being watched by a satellite and gets involved in a conspiracy group in the Netherlands.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026
The new data comes from audience interactions with cable and satellite set-top boxes and smart TVs across 45 million households and 75 million devices, but in recent weeks, the VAB, an industry group that works on behalf of national media companies.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
SpaceX is set to launch its latest national security mission, yet another GPS satellite that was originally to have been launched by United Launch Alliance.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 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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The return of his body closed a painful chapter for the country and cleared the way for the next and more challenging phase of the ceasefire, which calls for deploying an international security force, disarming Hamas, pulling back Israeli soldiers and rebuilding Gaza.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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In November, researchers published findings about the deadly pathogens that ravaged Napoleon's soldiers during his doomed 1812 retreat from Russia.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Ackie mostly barks orders at her minions to go get him, while Nighy in his home plays the bad guy demanding blood.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
28 Jan. 2026
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His latest lesson was giving the finger to a worker at a Michigan auto plant who yelled at him for his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, thereby giving license to his minions to do the same in any conflict or disagreement.—
Bob Kustra,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2026
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And SpongeBob, determined to not be just a bubble blowing baby boy, is set off on his own odyssey that takes him and his jolly starfish sidekick Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke) on a madcap adventure to the underworld with the ghost of The Flying Dutchman ( Mark Hamill ) and his lackey Barb (Regina Hall).—
Lindsey Bahr,
Boston Herald,
20 Dec. 2025
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Tony & Ziva wrapped its rollercoaster of an espionage tale Thursday with an intense finale, which picked up with the titular pair once again going in search of their daughter Tali after she’s kidnapped by Jonah Markham’s (Julian Ovendon) lackeys.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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The 90-minute film charts the different phases of the King’s life as an environmental missionary, and delves into his passion for the natural world and its protection, which started long before this became a mainstream concern, as his spokesman put it.—
Lauren Said-Moorhouse,
CNN Money,
29 Jan. 2026
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By the mid-sixties and seventies, Unification missionaries were flooding Japan.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Though many high-profile cases went nowhere, the case of Hitler’s henchman Martin Bormann is exemplary in showing how inefficient Argentina was in its investigations.—
Solly Boussidan,
FOXNews.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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Lawyers nationwide condemned White House henchman Stephen Miller for his false, provocative claims that ICE agents have immunity for their acts.—
Jackie Calmes,
Mercury News,
17 Jan. 2026
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Almost the entire Republican Senate caucus is made up of sycophants who disgrace the notion of democracy.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Jan. 2026
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And yet neither Congress nor the sycophants in the White House seem willing to stop him.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
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Lawyers for the Satanic Temple argued that these restrictions conflict with the religious practices of its Hoosier adherents.—
Ryan Murphy,
IndyStar,
6 Jan. 2026
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The movement had adherents among the student body and on the faculty at the Catholic University in Chiclayo, which has about ten thousand students, and the cathedral boasted an enormous portrait of Josemaria Escrivá, Opus Dei’s sainted founder.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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