flagship

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Recent Examples of flagship Goodall is a former senior political journalist and presenter at the BBC and Sky News, and a former policy editor at BBC Newsnight, the public broadcaster’s flagship political and current affairs show. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025 Wall Street is largely bullish on Nvidia stock ahead of the chipmaker’s flagship GPU Technology Conference on Tuesday, with some analysts saying its valuation is compelling after recent losses. Pia Singh, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025 Facile first opened a clinic on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles in 2016, then in Pasadena, Calif. in 2018, before relocating from Robertson to its Melrose Place flagship in 2021. Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 18 Mar. 2025 Beyond its three flagship competitions, VdR offers a diverse mix of formats, from the International Medium Length and Short Film Competition, to the Wide Angle section, featuring films that have already or are expected to make a splash on the festival circuit. Lise Pedersen, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flagship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flagship
Noun
  • It is designed with advanced stealth technology, combat command systems and firepower integration, the Chinese state media said, enhancing the warship's performance.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The second pitfall would be to imitate U.S. policy in recent decades, and spend vast sums on limited numbers of high-tech weapons platforms like fighter aircraft, battle tanks, and warships.
    Anatol Lieven, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Titanic was a luxury steamship that sank on April 15, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland after sideswiping an iceberg during its maiden voyage.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Way back in 1880, Thomas Edison used one of his electric dynamos, which generated direct current, to power the lighting on the steamship SS Columbia.
    Chun-Lien Su, IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2019
Noun
  • The key objective of the New Glenn's first uncrewed spaceflight last month was for the second stage of the vehicle to safely reach orbit before Blue Origin attempted to land the rocket booster, or first stage, on a barge several hundred miles offshore in the Atlantic.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The pieces were lifted by a crane and placed onto a barge with other parts recovered from the flight that took off from Wichita, Kansas, Wednesday for Washington's Reagan National Airport with 60 passengers and four crew members on board.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The bi-level superliner cars offer a higher vantage point, Magliari said.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024
  • With daily departures from Chicago Union station, the superliner service rumbles through Illinois chasing mile after mile of golden-red corn fields before thudding over the Mississippi river into Iowa.
    Monisha Rajesh, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • Chris Cook, Maersk’s managing director for South Asia, told the Economic Times that the company would explore the potential and feasibility of investing in dedicated air freighters and partnerships in the green fuel segment in India.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The other is in December of 2004, the show’s current-day timeline where Desmond has landed on a freighter several miles offshore from the island where Oceanic Flight 815 crashed.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Iran has sent a stealth missile corvette and a patrol ship, according to Iranian state media.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In separate raids on Crimean anchorages in February, May and June 2024, the USVs sank a corvette, a landing ship, a patrol boat and a tugboat.
    David Axe, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Fellow cruisers may flock to grand museums and historic sites, but surprises await those who ditch the pack.
    Amanda Eyre Ward, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Tensions building between Ray J and Princess Love amid their ongoing divorce proceedings exploded into a heated exchange in Los Angeles this week, briefly landing the R&B crooner in the back of a cop cruiser.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Alaska Airlines has invested in the project and the US Air Force has awarded a $235 million contract for a demonstrator that could serve as an air refueling tanker, cargo or transport aircraft.
    Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Russia responded by using a shadow fleet of tankers whose ties to Moscow were hidden to transport the commodity which continues to generate high revenues for the Kremlin, despite sanctions.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025

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