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mother ship

noun as in flagship

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“Workcation suggests that you’re not working,” he said, “but you can be sitting in Bali and working harder” than you did on the mother ship.

Unlike traditional rockets that take off vertically from a launchpad, Virgin Galactic launches its spacecraft from a mother ship, which carries the spacecraft to an altitude of more than 40,000 feet.

Like Virgin Galactic’s spaceship, the rocket is tethered to a mother ship, in this case a 747, that takes it to an altitude of some 40,000 feet.

A star presenter at Fox News exits the mother ship amid controversy, lured away by a rival network.

The boats can spend years at sea, periodically off-loading their catch to refrigerated mother ships and taking on fresh supplies.

He who once sailed the deep in the SEAL mother ship now sits in a New York City jail cell.

A few moments later the airplanes came winging back to their mother ship.

For this reason submarines always require to act in concert with what has been called a “mother ship.”

You are far from home without a mother-ship, or she would have found you and furnished oil before this.

Behind the battle line lay the Ark Royal, a mother ship for seaplanes.

Lors, watching the screen, saw the oblong shape of the mother ship blurp into view and called out its position to his friend.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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