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Recent Examples of satellite
During the trip, Musk said Saudi Arabia has approved Starlink, the satellite internet service owned and operated by SpaceX, for aviation and maritime use in the region.
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Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 14 May 2025
Starlink is the satellite internet service owned and operated by Musk’s aerospace and defense contractor, SpaceX.
SpaceX recently began offering its Starlink hardware for free outside the U.S. in a bid to win new subscribers.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 13 May 2025
As of June 2023, EU member airlines have been required to equip their aircraft with special network equipment that uses a satellite network to keep passengers connected.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2025
However, many of those satellites have stopped functioning, and many are actually spent rocket stages that boosted satellites into orbit.
—Mike Decaire, Twin Cities, 11 May 2025
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Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 14 May 2025
Starlink is the satellite internet service owned and operated by Musk’s aerospace and defense contractor, SpaceX.
SpaceX recently began offering its Starlink hardware for free outside the U.S. in a bid to win new subscribers.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 13 May 2025
As of June 2023, EU member airlines have been required to equip their aircraft with special network equipment that uses a satellite network to keep passengers connected.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2025
However, many of those satellites have stopped functioning, and many are actually spent rocket stages that boosted satellites into orbit.
—Mike Decaire, Twin Cities, 11 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satellite
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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
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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
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The vice president also pitched a hypothetical scenario in which the U.S. went to war with a foreign adversary and whether parents would like the peace of mind that the weapons used by U.S. soldiers are made within the U.S. rather than another country.—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
8 May 2025
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But this former American soldier has no special plans for Thursday, when Victory in Europe, or VE Day, is commemorated, saying every day is special to him now.—
Anne Clifford,
CNN Money,
8 May 2025
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Besides being massively ignorant, Musk and his minions are drunk on ideology.—
Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
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Through their minions in the media, in Big Pharma, and woke teachers manipulating their children's minds, these elites hold an iron grip on society.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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Shawn reluctantly agrees, but is humiliated when Cory starts acting corny around his friend Gambling Dan (Phil Buckman), and his lackey, Louie (Weiss).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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While Israel and its lackeys in Washington, D.C. blame Hamas for the breakdown, the opposite is true.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Mar. 2025
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The order is largely dedicated to serving the poor and has served as missionaries throughout history, per its official website.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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Prevost, a longtime missionary and member of the Augustinian religious order, made his first appearance on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday wearing the traditional red cape of the papacy.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2025
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If Trump wanted to relieve Adams from his criminal indictment, the president could simply have pardoned the mayor, instead his henchman Emil Bove concocted a scheme to temporarily suspend the case against Adams provided the mayor went along with the Trump immigration agenda.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
3 Apr. 2025
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Especially when Cadfael’s worldly wisdom and endless curiosity puts him at odds with his stricter brethren, including the authoritarian Prior Robert (Michael Culver) and his deliciously weasely henchman Brother Jerome (Julian Firth).—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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There are still sycophants and acolytes, but no savvy producers to make his head-scratching moves appear to make sense.—
Laura Bassett,
Rolling Stone,
14 Apr. 2025
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This is the grim lesson—one that the ambitious sycophants who attach themselves to power have always been slow to learn—of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, a series of fat, dense novels that filter the reign of Henry VIII through the rise and fall of his Machiavellian advisor, Thomas Cromwell.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
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This post-neoliberal script has adherents on both sides of the political aisle.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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But after making an initial splash in 2009 thanks to high-profile adherents like marathon star Paula Radcliffe, the first wave of high-quality studies supported the idea that beet juice really does improve endurance.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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