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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
  • But the few tanks the brigade still has left are going out fighting, engaging Russian paratroopers and marines—and potentially North Korean soldiers—along the edge of the 250-square-mile salient Ukrainian forces carved out of Kursk Oblast in western Russia back in August.
    David Axe, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Back home, families of those soldiers worried sick.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 20 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
  • The event bears the influences of European missionaries, Chinese government policies, and cultural and economic interplay between villagers and outsiders.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America’s Founding Document by John Bidwell Rozina Ali God’s Directive After the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims as part of a holy war.
    The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There’s this brawl out scene with the henchmen of Ivan’s Russian billionaire parents.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • When Sam and Alex fail to arrive in Vegas on schedule, an enraged Charles and his hulking henchmen are forced to intervene.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 12 Dec. 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
  • The concerns of modern wellness adherents are no less valid than their 20th-century counterparts.
    Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Thomas Kuhn, in his groundbreaking book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, described a paradigm shift in science as a new understanding of nature that: Is a sufficiently unprecedented theory to attract an enduring group of adherents.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024

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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.

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