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Recent Examples of satellite But during the late 1970s and ’80s the category exploded as a host of French companies invested in U.S. satellites, like Mumm, Moët-Chandon, Piper-Heidsieck, Taittinger and Roederer, along with the Spanish Cava producers Cordoniu and Freixenet. Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024 The researchers will also work on protocols that quickly route data transmissions to available satellites, at least on an experimental scale. IEEE Spectrum, 24 Dec. 2024 These satellite photos show how the Franklin fire threatened neighborhoods. Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024 The minute-long footage starts by showing train locomotives on fire and then segues into a satellite image of an airport, as well as images of a plane on the tarmac which has flames billowing out of the undercarriage. Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 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
  • The Inflation Reduction Act set the United States on a new green industrial trajectory that even Trump and his minions will have trouble reversing.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • That should give Trump and his minions enough time to solve all the problems of his voters who are struggling.
    Letters to the editor, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The current cast is rounded out by Alison Brie, who will play another Skeletor lackey, Evil-Lyn, Idris Elba, who will play the noble Man-at-Arms, and Riverdale's Camila Mendes as Teela, Man-at-Arms's daughter and He-Man's right-hand woman.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024
  • 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
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 5 Jan. 2025.

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