Thesaurus results for FLEETS

fleets

noun

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plural of fleet

as in convoys

a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management a fleet of buses rolling down the highway

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Recent Examples of fleets Add China’s broader strength in making EVs and connected cars, and robotaxi firms can tap a wide array of affordable, high-quality vehicles for their fleets. —

Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026 The postal service has one of the world’s largest civilian fleets with 246,503 vehicles, according to a statement, and a million miles is the equivalent of driving from the moon to earth more than four times. —

Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2026 Manufacturers now have a compact, a mid-size, an EV and a large SUV in their fleets trying to earn consumers’ business regardless of market. —

Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026 Some are hiring security consultants with Gulf sources and using tanker fleets to track port disruptions, The Wall Street Journal reported. —

J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 19 Mar. 2026 If China attempted to invade Taiwan, these missiles could hit Chinese amphibious fleets and/or attack escorting warships. —

Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026 Vehicles are drawn mainly from Empire’s local fleets, though supplements arrive from as far away as San Francisco and Las Vegas. —

Brett Berk, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026 But retrofitting these systems across large existing fleets remains slow and expensive. —

Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026 Taxi fleets in Europe ran them into the ground and then kept running them. —

Sean Evans, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2026

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Some threads of trade connected the different zones, like the Silk Road across central Asia, or the trans-Saharan caravans.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Kumari writes that horses from Central Asia mainly arrived in India over land routes, brought by merchants from nomadic cultures who traveled in caravans.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 20 Mar. 2026