short-range

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Recent Examples of short-range At the conference, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged $2 billion in financing to supply Ukraine with 5,000 short-range Martlet air-defense missiles, produced by French firm Thales at a factory in Belfast. David Axe, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025 This tri-band middle child adds the 6-GHz band for rapid and stable short-range Wi-Fi. Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2025 Influenza may be able to spread by contact with contaminated surfaces, with short-range coughs flinging droplets at people's faces and also by long-term airborne transmission. Meredith Wolf Schizer, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025 Such outlays may still be worthwhile, especially if the aircraft in question can survive enemy air defenses and still drop cheap, short-range weapons. Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for short-range
Recent Examples of Synonyms for short-range
Adjective
  • Since then, King was nominated for an Emmy in 2024 for outstanding supporting actress in a limited series for Apple TV+’s Lessons in Chemistry.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced the Hidden in Pieces Tour, a limited run of shows in intimate theaters across North America and England this spring and summer.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Anthony Cotton, her attorney, told the judge that Geyser willfully disclosed both the book and the contact with the man to the team determining her conditional release.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Geyser has asked the judge for a conditional release four times since June 2022.
    Todd Richmond, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The cost was pegged at about $80 million with tentative, public financing of about $15 million.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The company reached a tentative agreement to sell its intellectual property to investment firm Content Partners for $365 million but the figure is a baseline.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Related Articles Now, Detroit, which has gone from one of the league’s most disappointing teams to its one of its hottest after hiring a name-brand coach in Todd McLellan, cleared some salary cap space ahead of the trade deadline, while the Ducks plugged a transitory hole in their goalie pipeline.
    Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Some Republican economists also dismissed the idea that the fiscal stimulus would be inflationary, and financial markets suggested that investors believed that inflation would be transitory.
    Jason Furman, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Apps are ephemeral—the most popular ones are always changing.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Castro’s relationship to Camacho is peculiar, in the way that not many in the industry had the chance to meet this ephemeral talent.
    Griselda Flores, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • While the camp’s Cold War importance was fleeting — the US military abandoned Camp Century in the late 1960s after less than a decade in operation — the cutting-edge scientific work conducted there, in fields such as geophysics and paleoclimatology, has had enduring impacts.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
  • According to Style Editors 14 Slides By Jake Henry Smith View Slideshow How to style clogs for spring-summer 2025 Although trends are fleeting, the return of clogs is one that will definitely carry over well into summer and fall—and maybe even next spring.
    Casandra Maggio, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • On Thursday, the S&P 500 closed down more than 10% since a peak attained last month, meaning the decline officially qualified as a market correction.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The company wanted to hire men who were equally or less qualified than the female applicants, according to the complaint.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025

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“Short-range.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short-range. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

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