flagship

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Recent Examples of flagship Features like taking down mechanical beasts by targeting weaknesses, keeping elemental resistances in mind, and severing specific limbs to craft gear are all resonant in PlayStation’s flagship series. Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025 Initio’s flagship in France, called Le 320, is on Paris’ Rue Saint-Honoré. Jennifer Weil, WWD, 26 Feb. 2025 As a result, even expensive flagship phones could quickly fall behind and miss out on features and security fixes. Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2025 Nestlé’s creamer lineup has exploded, with new flavors from Starbucks, Natural Bliss and, of course, its flagship Coffee-mate brand. Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flagship
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Noun
  • What's next: Sens. Mike Lee and John Curtis, both Utah Republicans, want the option to build warships and major components overseas, in NATO countries and friendly Indo-Pacific areas (think Japan or South Korea).
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Take away the living quarters, corridors, ventilators, ladders, access ways, and work spaces, and a warship can be shrunk to a remarkable degree.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The twentieth-century struggle for African independence began in Paris salons hosted by the daughters of elite blacks, then travelled by telegram and steamship.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Infected rats likely brought the disease from steamships to the shore.
    Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Last fall Vineyard Theatre premiered the Wind and the Rain: A Story About Sunny’s Bar, on a barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
    Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • On Saturday, dozens of spectators and journalists watched the tugs maneuver the barge into place while police kept boaters away from the site.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 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 thick ice even temporarily stranded a Canadian cargo freighter.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • To counter this, construction magnate turned shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to the US government the building of a new class of seaplane bigger than anything previously conceived that would essentially be an airborne freighter.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Philippines has ordered 10 vessels from South Korea's Hyundai heavy Industries, with the first—a corvette—expected to be delivered to the Southeast Asian country's navy this year.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
  • What To Know The Russian Pacific Fleet announced on Monday that two corvettes, the Rezky and the Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov, and a fleet oiler, the Pechenga, have departed from their Far Eastern naval base in the city of Vladivostok for a long voyage.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Navy says the carrier arrived on Sunday and was accompanied by the cruiser USS Princeton and destroyer USS Sterett, both which are homeported in San Diego, and by the destroyer USS William P. Lawrence, which is ported in Pearl Harbor.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Beverly Hills police officer Jay Broyles, then a 20-year veteran, patrolled the neighborhood in a black-and-white cruiser with his longtime K-9 partner Boss, a German shepherd.
    Scott Huver, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Chambers says oral history, passed on by Koh Samui locals, states the tanker was torpedoed by a submarine.
    Ronan O'Connell, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
  • All tanker vessels will need to comply to reduce emissions in California ports by the beginning of 2027.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Flagship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagship. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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