flagship

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Recent Examples of flagship Citadel’s flagship Wellington fund and billionaire Israel Englander’s Millennium each returned 15%. Chris Dobstaff, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 With this new flagship, Alaïa expands its physical presence in Paris while ideating on this concept through craftsmanship in the fashion, design, and artistic realms, as envisioned by Pieter Mulier. Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025 Like the flagship model, the TS-L1640 and the TS-L2040 each boasts a 40-mm objective lens diameter. Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 20 Jan. 2025 Meanwhile, agricultural output could decline by $30 to $60 billion if Trump's flagship policy is enacted, according to the American Business Immigration Coalition. Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for flagship 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flagship
Noun
  • The world now faces converging threats: China is carrying out the largest peacetime military buildup since Nazi Germany’s, producing warships, combat aircraft, and missiles five to six times as fast as the United States can.
    Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In 1988 during the Iran-Iraq War, the U.S. warship the Vincennes shot down an Iran Air flight over the Gulf, killing all 290 people on board.
    Nailia Bagirova and Gleb Stolaryov, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In the years since then, with the arrival of steamships, airplanes, and modern cruise liners, millions of travelers worldwide have come to appreciate the beauty, climate, and people of the islands.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The pistons, belts, and pulleys create the ambience of an engine room on a steamship, as clumps of fiber are separated and realigned into uniform fabric.
    Shane C Kurup, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Blue Origin will attempt to land New Glenn’s first stage booster on a barge in the ocean 10 minutes after liftoff while its second stage heads into orbit.
    William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
  • This month, construction crews on barges, drills, cranes, tugs and service vessels will begin drilling to collect soil samples and map subsurface waterways.
    Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 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
  • All seven crew members aboard the freighter were Chinese nationals, the Taiwan coast guard said.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Freight can be moved by coastal freighters and barges.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Taiwan launched its Kuang Hua VI fast attack missile boats and Tuo Chiang-class corvettes on Thursday in an attempt to deter an invasion from China amid Beijing's ongoing military activity in the Taiwan Strait, according to the AP.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The arrival of the Ufa and Alatau came less than a week after three corvettes and a support vessel of Russia on Thursday as part of their Asia-Pacific deployment.
    Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Sixteen cruisers showed up within about seven minutes of us calling, and the rest is on the news.
    Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Because Holland America Line owns the 60-acre Denali Lodge, cruisers can seamlessly transition from HAL ships to an extended stay near the national park.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Nic Lynn, Neptune Aviation’s vice president of operations, said three of the company's air tankers are in use in Southern California.
    Terry Dickerson, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • News journal Lloyd's List reported in December that the tanker is part of a fleet circumventing sanctions on Russian trading.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025

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“Flagship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagship. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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