satellite

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Recent Examples of satellite Starlink provides satellite internet to millions Starlink is SpaceX's lucrative orbital satellite internet business. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 30 June 2026 Zelenskyy in announcing the Ukrainian strike on the satellite communications center noted that the facility was more than 500 km, or about 310 miles, from the Ukrainian-Russian boarder. Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 30 June 2026 Researchers Corey Scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University, working with satellite data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 system, stressed that the estimate remains preliminary and has not yet been verified on the ground. Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 Rocket Lab took a big step Monday to better compete with rivals SpaceX and Amazon, announcing an $8-billion acquisition of satellite communications company Iridium. Los Angeles Times, 29 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
  • Mexico sent two Mexican Air Force transport planes carrying 261 personnel, including soldiers, air force members and National Guard troops, Reuters reported.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • National Guard soldiers and airmen will be tasked with crowd control, traffic management and security patrols.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Zoey Deutch wears minion yellow to the Los Angeles premiere of Minions & Monsters on June 28.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • And minions have taken over Wendy’s frosty machines with a new banana flavor.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 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
  • Leo, who spent two decades working as a missionary in Peru, would be intimately familiar with the plight of Indigenous peoples in mining areas and the environmental impact of extraction industries on the land.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 June 2026
  • Friends described Boelter as an evangelical Christian and occasional preacher and missionary who held politically conservative views and had been struggling to find work.
    Tim Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • Now, Lilith must team up with Cinderella to fight biker trolls, outrun evil henchmen, and escape the Screaming Woods.
    Kevin Giraud, Variety, 23 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • In an undersized team that already shares a worldview, the silicon sycophant doesn't catch the blind spot.
    Matt Poepsel, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups.
    Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • But the belief died hard, and photography spurred its adherents on.
    Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Bridgers is a strict adherent to Attenborough’s Law.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026

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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.

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