fleets

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 The model targets fleets operating at least 10 natural gas trucks or those planning conversions of similar size. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026 Combining their charter fleets will move them to the sixth spot, overtaking PlaneSense and closing on fifth-place flyExclusive. Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 For years, rail advocates have been pressing Connecticut transportation planners to put more resources into the freight system to reduce the huge fleets of tractor trailers on state highways. Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026 The banana trade’s leading companies maintained fleets of freighters to ferry fruit north from Central America and the Antilles. Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026 Administrators rely on them to monitor the physical status of large fleets of servers and to perform a variety of tasks, including rebooting machines, installing updates, and even reinstalling operating systems. Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026 For commercial fishing fleets, these changes can be disastrous. Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
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Noun
  • Camel caravans on the Silk Road once passed through this flat, dusty scrubland.
    Shilo Urban, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026
  • As random players began to join and leave the caravans, a rock tour energy developed.
    Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Brian Hurley predicts, meanwhile, that as more independent astronauts from around the world begin occupying the orbital rings closest to Earth, SpaceX could move to connect up small flotillas of Starships into larger interlinked clusters.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The ships will enter Boston Harbor in flotillas and turn around near Charlestown before docking.
    Neal Riley, CBS News, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • The bridge was built in 1911 as part of the Air-Line Railroad to Thompson and beyond, an era when steam trains ran the rails.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Here's are the details and when the trains will start running.
    Finch Walker, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • New and vintage car shows, forums, memorabilia, parades and vintage racing abound.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The nightly parades at the park in West Mifflin just outside Pittsburgh are set to showcase school marching bands from across Pennsylvania.
    Finch Walker, USA Today, 31 July 2026

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“Fleets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fleets. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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