satellite

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Recent Examples of satellite While the benefits of satellite technology often appear right at our fingertips — from location and navigation services to messaging, streaming, and gaming apps — the risks are a little more subtle. Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 The custom antenna comes from Get SAT, an Israeli developer of smaller satellite communication terminals that sells to governments, defense agencies, and enterprises. Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026 The satellite lost communication at about 560 kilometers above Earth, Starlink said. Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2026 Starlink allows users to connect directly to the internet via satellite, bypassing government firewalls. Npr Staff, NPR, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for satellite
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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
  • Military police are often the only armed personnel on base, outside of shooting ranges, hunting areas or in training, where soldiers can wield their service weapons without ammunition.
    CBS News, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The village’s Black residents, including Hettie, are energized by a promising but tangled effort to redress a long-standing injustice—the unequal compensation received by Black South African soldiers in the Second World War.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Noem’s minions would defy and frustrate federal judges seeking basic information from DHS about the department’s compliance with court orders.
    Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Instead, his minions, so afraid of earning his wrath, have remained quiet.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Trump wants Americans to believe that his opponents are of this ilk, with his lackeys casting activists as domestic terrorists for merely showing up to protests.
    Gustavo Arellano, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Trump wants Americans to believe that his opponents are of this ilk, with his lackeys casting activists as domestic terrorists for merely showing up to protests.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • They were followed in 1527 by Dominican missionaries, and eight years later a Portuguese port and trading center were established at Faifo (modern Hoi An), south of present-day Da Nang.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • In the 1800s, American missionaries journeyed to what was then called Persia.
    Daniel Thomas Potts, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • That is, until Krypto is poisoned by the henchmen of villain Krem of the Yellow Hills, with only three days to save him.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Researchers argued that career anxiety under autocracy creates both pro-regime henchmen and anti-regime plotters.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • To start the new Mideast war, Donnie acted on his own with no resistance from his sycophants, who have no backbones.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Republican sycophants currently in office, out of fear, won’t stand up to him.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Leftism thus constitutes an ongoing search for new causes to fight on behalf of, in a way that mobilizes adherents and creates solidarity among them.
    Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Both romantic trends have adherents who spin their retreat from status quo romance as a kind of liberation from modern expectations, and who position their marital arrangement as the logical extension of a deeper political project.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026

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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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