flagship

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Recent Examples of flagship Michelle in Washington state is exploring the best places there to make flagship examples. Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025 This chip promises to significantly improve the speed, efficiency, and AI of flagship phones. Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025 Adani Enterprises, Gautam Adani’s flagship company, is exiting from the joint venture with Wilmar to focus on its core infrastructure businesses and use the proceeds from the deal to expand its renewable energy, transport and logistics ventures. Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 The commentary piece in German was launched online on Saturday and published on Sunday in Die Welt am Sonntag, the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media group, the company that also owns U.S. political news site Politico. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for flagship 
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Noun
  • The Pentagon expected the warship to be operational in the first half of 2025. What To Know Photos taken by Chinese ship spotters showed the Fujian returned to Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, where it was constructed in 2017 and launched, from its sixth sea trial.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The shortfall is so severe that warship production is down to its lowest level in a quarter century.
    Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Hartley offers a fascinating account of the logistics of navigating the Volga before the introduction of steamships, including the herculean work of barge haulers, who had to drag boats upstream.
    Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
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
  • Miraculously, only one member of the Hooligan Navy was killed while serving, during a collision with a Dutch freighter.
    David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Authorities said at the time that their initial findings showed a Chinese fishing vessel and a Chinese freighter caused the disruption, but that there was no evidence Beijing deliberately tampered with the cables.
    Reuters, NBC News, 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
  • The shadow fleet is made up of hundreds of aging tankers of uncertain ownership and safety practices that are dodging sanctions and keeping the oil revenue flowing to Moscow, and is a cause of concern for European countries.
    Lorne Cook and Vanessa Gera, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025

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