armadas

noun

plural of armada
as in fleets
a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management an armada of ships sailing up the coast

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Recent Examples of armadas Not an inciting event for troll armadas to threaten the people involved. — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 2 July 2026 Musk proposes powering these super-armadas of satellites with solar panels. — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 Trump has referred to aircraft carriers and their accompanying destroyers as armadas and flotillas. — Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2026 Leaders in Congress agreed and sent out armadas of patriot privateers to do just that, plundering British shipping around the Atlantic rim and forcing Royal Navy warships to redeploy to convoy duty. — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
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fleets
Noun
  • The Airbus A319s and A320 fleets are currently being retrofitted and the A321 neo fleet will then be retrofitted.
    — Ted Reed, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • For China, which has one of the world’s largest commercial shipping fleets, such preparations could give the military access to a much larger pool of transport and support vessels during a major crisis.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026
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