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satellite

noun as in small planet that revolves around a larger one

Strong matches

noun as in smaller country dependent upon a larger one

noun as in subsidiary

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Example Sentences

Initially, it will be able to carry 1,000-pound satellite-guided bombs or 500-pound laser-guided weapons.

For air supplier Hughes Aircraft, it was crucial satellite pieces from Russia.

Thus the report on the Guy Fawkes effigies, which also was picked up by RT, the English-language Russian satellite channel.

As a result, a satellite passing over a higher-mass region would speed up very slightly, and slow down over a lower-mass one.

A small outdoor television satellite dish sticks out of tall grass alongside a few piles of firewood.

She was captured many years ago in an attempt to overthrow the rule of Wananda upon a small satellite planet.

Such an attachment of a small or weak toward a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.

His Life by his satellite Boswell holds the first place among biographies as a triumph of portraiture.

He beckoned to his Chinese satellite and walked leisurely to the door.

Rose hurried away her sister and satellite, and then let loose her glee.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to satellite, such as: asteroid, moon, and planetoid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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