SATELLITES Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

satellites

noun

plural of satellite

as in camp followers

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Recent Examples of satellites SpaceX's Starlink satellites made over 355,000 collision avoidance maneuvers throughout the past year, with each satellite now dodging debris and other spacecraft on an almost weekly basis. — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 15 July 2026 The more a workload requires coordination or synchronization between satellites, the more satellite-to-satellite latency becomes an issue. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026 SpaceX builds and operates spacecraft, as well as thousands of satellites deployed in support of its Starlink satellite internet service. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 June 2026 The rocket deployed operational satellites for China’s Qianfan megaconstellation, which is designed to rival SpaceX’s Starlink satellite Internet service. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 1 June 2026 That said, Apple has not guaranteed that access to satellites will be available free forever — it’s initially offered for two years from the purchase of the handset, though Apple has extended this period for the first phones that had satellite features, such as the iPhone 14 series. — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 Prior to the merger news, Globalstar was preparing its own next-generation C-3 constellation of 48 satellites to upgrade the satellite connectivity on Apple iPhones. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026 The company currently operates a network of more than 200 satellites and is preparing ‌to ⁠roll out its satellite internet services later this year. — Reuters, NBC news, 14 Apr. 2026 Search and rescue tools attached to these satellites are able to detect emergency distress signals transmitted by 406 beacons — devices that are specifically designed to ping the satellite. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026

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Noun

There are references to demons, being burned alive, and the duende king explicitly commands his minions to kill Jo and Raissa.

— Parents, Parents, 25 Sep. 2026
Musashi becomes part of a crew that fights the Genma and Yoshitsune’s minions.

— Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of minions

Noun

Israel says four of its soldiers have been killed by militants in Gaza over the same period.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
The film, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, sees the pair interview Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers (faces concealed, voices digitally altered) on rooftops in Tel Aviv about the civilian death toll in Gaza.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of soldiers

Noun

One of the villain’s henchmen was a small, shaggy blue creature with a long drooping snout and a sour expression that lived in a cigar box.

— Niranjana Rajalakshmi, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026
Bird himself provides the voices for Xavier’s alien henchmen, Gunsol and Musker.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of henchmen

Noun

For its sycophants, LIV Golf was a new flavor in the vanilla world of professional golf.

— Brody Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Our state is under siege by the skilled sycophants who surround the president and use his base desires as cover for their own destructive agendas.

— Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of sycophants

Noun

The native people of this region were not wiped out by smallpox and instead established an independent kingdom that blends a traditional monarchy with Catholicism, thanks to the efforts of some earlier missionaries.

— John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
The coding missionaries of the twenty-tens made errors both practical and philosophical.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of missionaries

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Xi’s brand of resentful nationalism, meanwhile, comes with a strong anti-American streak, and security apparatchiks see CIA spies everywhere.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
The group ventriloquized the voices of authority—parents, school principals, cops, military officers, judges, politicians, newscasters, Soviet apparatchiks—and turned them into expressions of mass insanity.

— Andrew Katzenstein, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026

Definition of apparatchiks

Noun

Since the administration kicked off its anti-AI doomerism social media campaign, taking particular aim at EA and its adherents’ belief that AI carries a high risk of ending humanity—anti-AI sentiment seems to have grown.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026
When brutal rationalism is challenged, especially by traditionalists, its defenders will often justify themselves by pointing to the intelligence of its adherents.

— Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2026

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