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Westar

American  
[wes-tahr] / ˈwɛs tɑr /

noun

  1. one of a series of privately owned geostationary communications satellites that service commercial users in the U.S.


Etymology

Origin of Westar

West(ern Union st)ar

Example Sentences

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“We have been working really hard toward this transaction,” said Westar spokeswoman Gina Penzig.

From Washington Times • Apr. 19, 2017

The Kansas Corporation Commission issued its order against a proposal from Kansas City, Missouri-based Great Plains Energy Inc. to buy Topeka-based Westar Energy Inc. after consumer advocates and the commission’s own staff criticized the acquisition.

From Washington Times • Apr. 19, 2017

Both satellites, the Palapa B-2 and the Westar 6, which had been deployed from a shuttle earlier in the year, had slipped into useless orbits.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2014

That’s when Group W would beam the first Discovery Channel signal to the Westar V satellite positioned 22,236 miles above the equator.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2013

Just hours later, his office filed a motion to dismiss its most prominent criminal case, a seven-year-old corporate-fraud prosecution against two former top executives at Westar Energy, the state’s largest electric utility.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2010

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