flagship

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Recent Examples of flagship The Middle East retail push comes after years of testing the waters through OTB’s flagship brand, Diesel. Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 15 Apr. 2025 For example, her flagship American Straight Malt Whiskey features 60% specialty malts roasted to various levels, drawing out different sugars and flavors. Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2025 The flagship cryptocurrency followed equities higher on Friday to end the week with a 5% daily gain. Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 12 Apr. 2025 The limited designs by Nigel Xavier are available from April 7, exclusively at the Guest in Residence flagship store at 21 Bond Street in New York City. Mecca Pryor, Essence, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flagship
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Noun
  • The announcement comes as tensions surge across the Middle East, with the U.S. deploying more warships and aircraft in response to Iranian threats, escalating its military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, and as Israel intensifies its strikes in Gaza and Lebanon.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The gap between conventional warships and autonomous ones keeps getting blurred as the latter grow in size and capabilities.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Motor Vessel Neil N. Diehl went through Lock and Dam 2, in Hastings on Wednesday, with nine barges.
    Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Related article Recovery of DC jet wreckage begins as investigators review new information The wreckage was transferred, one piece at a time, from a barge to a flatbed truck parked only a couple of hundred feet from the airport’s main runway.
    Andy Rose, CNN, 5 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 companies had ordered hundreds of new freighters when flush with cash from the boom in global trade during the pandemic.
    Peter Eavis, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The 388-foot-long corvette has a range of 4,500 nautical miles [5,178 miles] with a speed of up to 25 knots [28 miles per hour].
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The Russian corvettes are armed with air defense and anti-ship missiles.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Japanese forces lost four aircraft carriers, one cruiser and hundreds of aircraft, while the U.S. lost one carrier, one destroyer and dozens of aircraft.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Such losses would represent a significant proportion of the 11 carriers and approximately 80 cruisers and destroyers currently in service around the world.
    ANDREW S. LIM, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The overnight strike on the Ras Isa port sent massive fireballs billowing skyward and turned tanker trucks into burning wrecks.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Satellite images reveal additional deployments, including KC-135 refueling tankers.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Flagship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagship. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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