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Recent Examples of ancillary
There’s a central dining room that serves all three meals, plus ancillary outdoor breakfast spots, specialty dinners, a smoothie bar, two specialty coffee spots.
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Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
By the time Hitsville had folded, the church had become a multi-tentacled house of God, raking in millions from a theology school, TV network, a college, daycare center, and other ancillary businesses.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2024
Experts believe that the focus on ancillary revenue by travel companies is negatively impacting customer satisfaction.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
Seat fees—where passengers pay extra for additional legroom, a front-of-plane row for quicker deplaning, or a window or aisle seat—have rivaled baggage fees in recent years as the industry’s biggest source of ancillary revenue.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
By the time Hitsville had folded, the church had become a multi-tentacled house of God, raking in millions from a theology school, TV network, a college, daycare center, and other ancillary businesses.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2024
Experts believe that the focus on ancillary revenue by travel companies is negatively impacting customer satisfaction.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
Seat fees—where passengers pay extra for additional legroom, a front-of-plane row for quicker deplaning, or a window or aisle seat—have rivaled baggage fees in recent years as the industry’s biggest source of ancillary revenue.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancillary
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Calls for a secondary women’s continental club competition have finally been answered, so teams that finish outside the top spots in major leagues as well as champions from relatively less strong nations will have the opportunity to compete for silverware.Neel Shelat, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Rose Bowl: Ohio State's offense ranks in the top 10 and the Buckeyes' secondary is seeing the fifth-fewest deep passes in the nation.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
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Some of those stations already have auxiliary towers located elsewhere and could quickly get back on the air, but most likely at lesser power and with a smaller coverage area.Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
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In the event that the fire does subsume the broadcast towers, the TV and radio stations would be off the broadcast airwaves until any auxiliary towers elsewhere could be brought online.Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
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To salvage the 155th Mechanized Brigade, a unit that Ukraine, France and Poland spent months and millions of dollars training and equipping, Ukrainian leaders have begun assigning its fresh but inexperienced subordinate units to the weary but experienced brigades in the Pokrovsk sector.David Axe, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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Despite a propaganda campaign encouraging all Americans to come together and do their part to defeat the Axis and totalitarianism, the U.S. military remained rigidly segregated with people of color subjugated into subordinate roles and Black soldiers discriminated against abroad and at home.Tracie Canada / Made by History, TIME, 1 Jan. 2025
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Cognitive Design Production Center is a subsidiary organization of the IRGC.Emma Woollacott, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against Kinetic Content, the company behind the hit show, and its subsidiary Delirium TV.Peter White, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
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Additional peripheral mounts will be released in August, including the $99 Pro Flying surfaces for a joystick and throttle, the $189 Pro Desktop desk surface for a mouse and keyboard, and the $199 Pro Racing surfaces for a steering wheel and pedals.Will Greenwald, PCMAG, 9 Jan. 2025
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In the early 2000s, the leadership team took a peripheral risk by investing in streaming technology—a bet that seemed uncertain at the time.ByMargie Warrell, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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In Colombia, for example, according to supplementary data in the study, people drank an estimated 17 servings of sugary drinks each week – or over two 8-ounce glasses a day.Rachel Carlson, NPR, 13 Jan. 2025
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These 17 videos, which contain historical lessons about the island, complement the album and serve as supplementary reading.Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Muscle strengthening is still an important way to reach your physical activity requirements for optimal bone and muscle health, and walking (especially a brisk walk) is a great supplemental activity. — AVIV JOSHUA, MS, MEDICAL EXPERT BOARD 2.Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 10 Jan. 2025
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Start by assessing your coverage: Medicare: Familiarize yourself with what Medicare covers and consider supplemental insurance (Medigap) or Medicare Advantage plans to fill in gaps.Andrew Rosen, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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The severe weather warning in Florida stretches from Tallahassee down to Tampa, while an additional marginal warning area extends down to Fort Myers.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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There was some marginal improvement, but not enough.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Ancillary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancillary. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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