SATELLITES Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

satellites

noun

plural of satellite

as in camp followers

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Recent Examples of satellites SpaceX's Starlink satellites made over 355,000 collision avoidance maneuvers throughout the past year, with each satellite now dodging debris and other spacecraft on an almost weekly basis. — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 15 July 2026 The more a workload requires coordination or synchronization between satellites, the more satellite-to-satellite latency becomes an issue. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026 SpaceX builds and operates spacecraft, as well as thousands of satellites deployed in support of its Starlink satellite internet service. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 June 2026 The rocket deployed operational satellites for China’s Qianfan megaconstellation, which is designed to rival SpaceX’s Starlink satellite Internet service. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 1 June 2026 That said, Apple has not guaranteed that access to satellites will be available free forever — it’s initially offered for two years from the purchase of the handset, though Apple has extended this period for the first phones that had satellite features, such as the iPhone 14 series. — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 Prior to the merger news, Globalstar was preparing its own next-generation C-3 constellation of 48 satellites to upgrade the satellite connectivity on Apple iPhones. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026 The company currently operates a network of more than 200 satellites and is preparing ‌to ⁠roll out its satellite internet services later this year. — Reuters, NBC news, 14 Apr. 2026 Search and rescue tools attached to these satellites are able to detect emergency distress signals transmitted by 406 beacons — devices that are specifically designed to ping the satellite. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026

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Noun

Just as Wolverine is surrounded, he’s saved by Mystique, who’s shape-shifted herself into one of Trask’s minions.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
One of Danhausen’s minions took out Mysterio with a flipping dive on the outside.

— Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of minions

Noun

That means determining how robots are transported, controlled, tasked, and integrated with soldiers and existing command structures.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
This is my personal version of those videos of soldiers coming home from war, and the other women react as such.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of soldiers

Noun

One of the senior henchmen of right-wing Christian politics saw this dangerous transformation unfolding from the inside.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026
While Sanji and Chopper fight off various henchmen, Luffy battles Wapol and eventually beats him with Sanj’s help.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of henchmen

Noun

And as Netanyahu’s coalitions hardened Schleien’s programs became edgier, skewering Netanyahu sycophants in the Likud Party, anti-élitist demagogues, cultic settlers, and rabbinic mandarins.

— Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026
Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups.

— Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026

Definition of sycophants

Noun

That historic exodus helped turn the Republic of Korea, as South Korea is formally known, into a stronghold of the Christian faith and one of the world’s biggest exporters of missionaries.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
His parents, Cynthia and Warren Bonta, were missionaries and social justice activists who were drawn to the state’s signature civil rights struggle of that era.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of missionaries

Noun

Xi’s brand of resentful nationalism, meanwhile, comes with a strong anti-American streak, and security apparatchiks see CIA spies everywhere.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
The group ventriloquized the voices of authority—parents, school principals, cops, military officers, judges, politicians, newscasters, Soviet apparatchiks—and turned them into expressions of mass insanity.

— Andrew Katzenstein, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026

Definition of apparatchiks

Noun

Breitbart has also published an article skewering Hamilton for suggesting that adherents of other religions might get to Heaven.

— Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
Its adherents believe that the relentless pursuit of maximizing individual freedom and rights has come at the cost of community, religion, and traditional norms.

— Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of adherents

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