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Recent Examples of satellite Iran has a new ship with the capability of launching drones, according to satellite images reviewed by Maxar Technologies that were shared with The Hill. Brad Dress, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024 The Falcon 9 rocket carried 20 Starlink satellites and a batch of secretive spy satellites for the US National Reconnaissance Office, which has reportedly contracted with SpaceX’s Starshield business to develop the satellite constellation. Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 Dec. 2024 Since satellite coverage is focused on low-population density areas, each operator need not own the complete bandwidth of a satellite or even one carrier. Bejoy Pankajakshan, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024 More than 1,600 bolides have occurred so far in 2024, according to NASA's Geostationary Lightning Mapper, a satellite that measures light and can aid scientists in detecting lightning from severe weather. John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2024 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
  • The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • In 2015, members of the Islamic State (IS) destroyed parts of the ancient city, and shortly afterwards the area saw fighting between Kurdish and IS soldiers.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Not so, for minions who might break the law doing Trump's dirty work.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The first 10 minutes of the game are called the Laning Phase, and you're expected to stay in your lane and begin taking out minions and collecting souls to help your team start leveling up.
    Omar L. Gallaga, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Among the most glaring examples is Ninth Division Commander Gen. Roh Tae-gun (Park Jae-hoon, excellent), a weak-willed lackey seduced by power and greed who’s based on Roh Tae-woo, Chun’s successor as president in 1988.
    Richard Kuipers, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Americans, beware: Putin and his lackeys are not your friends.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • These missionaries are a destabilizing influence in a territory dominated by another version of Christianity, established and spread by the colonizing Belgians, that emphasizes the supremacy of a white Jesus.
    Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • But Native numbers began to decline with the arrival of Spanish missionaries, who brought diseases for which Natives had no immunity, including smallpox, malaria and diphtheria.
    CalMatters, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The tornado that destroys DG’s family farm is a mode of inter-dimensional transportation used by the evil witch’s henchmen.
    Emma Stefansky, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
  • As fits his elevated role, Páramo has henchmen to do his bidding, like Fulgor Sedano (Héctor Kotsifakis).
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger, under white powder and red eye shadow like Joker sycophants.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • But that progress will be harder to forge if Trump follows through on his vow to mass fire civil servants and replace them with sycophants.
    Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Noun
  • Cisco Aguilar, Nevada Secretary of State Since winning his 2022 race by a narrow margin against a Trump-backing Big Lie adherent and QAnon sympathizer, Aguilar, a Democrat, has invested $30 million to modernize the state’s voting infrastructure.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • At its peak, Christianity in Japan boasted some 500,000 adherents, the majority of them clustered in Nagasaki.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024

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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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