satellite state
Example Sentences
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North Korea is preparing to launch its first military spy satellite, state media has reported.
From Reuters • May 24, 2023
Thus, Tito believed it should be treated by the Soviet Union as an equal, not as a satellite state to which it gave orders.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
They capture a part of the late ’80s in what was then Czechoslovakia, a Soviet satellite state.
From The Verge • Jan. 15, 2022
Eleven months later Ms. Brock, a British technology entrepreneur, is still there, living and working in the former Soviet satellite state as what she calls a “Brexit refugee.”
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021
Over the next five years the country rapidly assumed the characteristics of a satellite state of the Soviet Union.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.