flagship

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Recent Examples of flagship Netflix made a huge play into professional wrestling in 2024 by acquiring the rights to the WWE’s flagship series, Raw, for $5 billion (over 10 years). Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 17 July 2025 Marking the 25th anniversary of the flagship in town — one of the four boutiques the brand operates, which include units in Milan, Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino — the brand has customized beach club Bagno Cesare with sunbeds, cabanas, beach towels and even the beach staff donning Doriani. Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 9 July 2025 The former is less than most modern slab-style phones, while the latter is in line with today's flagships. PC Magazine, 9 July 2025 Like every year, it is powered by the same chipset as Samsung’s slab flagship. Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for flagship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flagship
Noun
  • As German warships close in on Oslo, Colonel Birger Eriksen, commander of the Oscarsborg Fortress, a stronghold in the Oslo Fjord, is forced to act on his own judgment.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 30 July 2025
  • The carrier is the flag ship of a strike group that includes several San Diego warships, including the destroyers USS Princeton and USS Sterett.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • In 1860, Ingram died while sailing aboard the Lady Elgin, a steamship that sank after being hit by another vessel on Lake Michigan.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2025
  • En route to Milwaukee, one of the steamships, the Sultana, lost 42 Essex Super Six cars and sedans overboard.
    Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • The barge was being pushed from behind by a tugboat.
    Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 29 July 2025
  • In time, the regulatory authority extended to the railroads’ competitors—barges and trucking, for example—giving them, too, the benefits of federal regulation.
    John C. Goodman, Forbes.com, 29 July 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
  • The newest freighter on the Great Lakes, the MV Mark W. Barker, was launched in 2022.
    Cassidey Kavathas, Freep.com, 31 July 2025
  • But five days later, a passing Russian freighter rescued Cavanagh and a crewmate, Deborah Scaling.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • However, the smaller Israeli missile corvettes have some advantages over their much bulkier counterparts serving in the all-mighty U.S. Navy.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • On display during the Ocean Day exercise was one of Taiwan’s new Anping-class corvettes, stealth-capable vessels with surface-to-land missile systems, and, naturally, advanced rescue capabilities.
    Eryk Michael Smith, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • When the engineer put it back into Comfort to pass through a village (and not get busted by the speed camera), the car settled back into a comfortable cruiser.
    Chad Kirchner, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2025
  • The windows of an SUV cruiser located 75 feet from the site of the explosion were blown out.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Air tankers dropped nearly 180,000 gallons of fire retardant on July 13 alone.
    Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 14 July 2025
  • Two single-engine air tankers based in Mesquite delivered fire retardant to assist with initial suppression efforts before dark, according to the report.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 11 July 2025

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“Flagship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagship. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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