satellite

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Recent Examples of satellite Stern first signed with the satellite radio outlet in 2004; his current contract expires at the end of 2025. Todd Spangler, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025 What’s up The space law take on NASA’s plans for a lunar nuclear reactor — A lawyer reviews the legal backdrop of NASA’s next steps to set up a nuclear reactor on the Moon to power satellites and equipment for Mars exploration. Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2025 Payload is two satellites, including the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 headed to geostationary orbit. Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025 Per the previous reporting from Marchand, the service will allow subscribers to bypass cable or satellite providers to watch all ESPN programming, including live games, through ESPN’s app. Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 6 Aug. 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
  • In 1961: After a decree by the Volkskammer, East German soldiers began installing a barbed wire barrier through Berlin.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Tens of thousands of its children will grow up without fathers, and hundreds of thousands of its soldiers will be physically and emotionally scarred.
    Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Players are asked to recruit their friends to fight the minions of the titular evil entity, the Deceiver.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 9 June 2025
  • This summer has already given ample evidence of how poorly Trump and his minions understand California.
    Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Blaming Christos for a substation outage, The Dama’s lackey gassed the lot of ’em and bashed in their heads.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 1 June 2025
  • Outside of one good scene between Clark and Lois, almost every frame is constantly packed with characters, whether this is the (admittedly very funny) Justice Gang (Nathan Fillion’s Green Lantern, Isabela Merced’s Hawkgirl and Edi Gathegi’s scene-stealing Mister Terrific) or Lex and his lackeys.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Hersey, the secular son of high-Wasp missionaries to China, transferred an almost stern sense of morality to his work.
    Jane Mayer, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Martindale grew up on farms in upstate New York and Indiana, the child of missionaries who later moved to rural China, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
    Reuters, NBC news, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Nina gets free just in time, only to find Saxton and Jim battling a ballet of bullets with Sal’s men — a firefight that gets Saxton’s blunt-force henchman Billy (Evan Jones) shot through the eye.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 4 July 2025
  • The wretched music alone is worth it, as is Victor Von Doom's henchman, who sounds like a little kid trying to impersonate Dracula.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • This is not the summer Trump and his sycophants had planned.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 22 July 2025
  • He’s surrounded mostly by true believers and sycophants and able to engage somewhat freely in various forms of government dismantling and corruption.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • The Amazon Essentials product line offering everyday low prices continues to gain new adherents and now represents one out of every three units sold.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • There was already a playbook for action, a loyal membership and an understanding that aggressive action would yield new adherents.
    Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2025

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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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