flagship

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Recent Examples of flagship With the iPhone 17 (starting at $799), Apple has upgraded the base model in meaningful ways that level it up against the rest of the iPhone 17 family—and competing flagship phones. Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025 The flagship location of A&R Bar-B-Que is on Elvis Presley Boulevard, and what could be more distinctively Memphis than that? Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025 Shares of the iPhone maker were on a tear after a federal judge ruled late Tuesday that Alphabet can keep making payments to preload Google Search onto Apple's flagship devices. Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2025 Three authors — Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson — sued Anthropic last year, alleging that the company had stolen hundreds of thousands of books to develop Claude, its flagship large language model (and also the name of its AI chatbot). Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flagship
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Noun
  • Only one month on, U.S. warships began patrolling international waters off Venezuela’s coast, ostensibly to target drug cartels, but realistically to pressure Maduro after Venezuelan threats against Guyana accelerated again with Guyanese elections being imminent. China To The Rescue?
    Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • During Trump's first term, U.S. warships were also sent to the region, with little impact.
    NPR's International Desk, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So Gabriela and her companion set off on a steamship headed to Altamira.
    Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And for those seeking British history, visit Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Britain, a steamship created by the man who masterminded much of England’s most impressive infrastructure, including the railway from London to Bristol.
    Lottie Gross, AFAR Media, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • When that high water abated in late July, Day predicted that barge traffic on the state's largest port and the Arkansas River as a whole would return to normal.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a small barge in a canal with a pole mounted on the front.
    Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 11 Sep. 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 most prominent features of the Cygnus cargo freighter are its circular, fan-like solar arrays and an aluminum cylinder called the pressurized cargo module that bears some resemblance to a keg of beer.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Daryl was able to get to France on a freighter.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Based on their hull numbers, the Russian vessels were the Pacific Fleet's missile cruiser Varyag and the corvette Gromkiy.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This can all quickly change if the Navy gets real about their fuel demands, acknowledges the Pacific will be contested, and confronts the looming logistical challenge of keeping vast numbers of autonomous corvettes and other small support craft operational in a conflict.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This is not a wallowing cruiser that isolates the driver in a leather cocoon, floating along, not entirely sure where the front end is.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The company has updated its 450cc sports and cruiser bikes alongside the Papio mini motos with some nifty new features.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Other agencies would also be involved in trying to determine whether the company that owned the tanker had complied with regulations.
    Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Four people have died and 90 others have been injured following a gas tanker explosion in Mexico City.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Flagship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagship. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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