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 spacecraft there are one-of-a-kind or operate in small fleets. Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026 Meanwhile, CoreWeave operates within the high-yield market with a Ba3 rating, relying on complex private debt structures to finance its GPU hardware fleets. Hugh Son, CNBC, 24 July 2026 Faster coordination between engineering teams, supply chain managers and technicians could help reduce aircraft turnaround times while improving the availability of mission-critical fleets. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026 Satpal dragged us back to the building through a heavy iron door, leading to a storage room, followed by four fleets of stairs, up to the terrace of the dhaba. Literary Hub, 21 July 2026 The design goal is fleets that act in concert, not single machines that have to be managed individually. John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 Backed by foreign suppliers, both the SAF and RSF have expanded their drone fleets, from modified commercial drones to advanced military systems. Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 The illustrations showed him fleets of Greek ships sailing for Troy to recover Helen, and men being transformed into livestock. Chris Moody, The Atlantic, 16 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
  • Gonzalez said more stations in the southern Blue Line corridor, which extends to Cosumnes River College, will close later this year as RT prepares the stations for the new trains to enter service in 2027.
    Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026
  • Many people were killed in attacks on refugee groups and trains crossing the border.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • The parades — accompanied by dances, music and song — draw large crowds and tourists every year.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
  • Another term for a certain kind of planetary alignment, planet parades are what happens when planets line up along the ecliptic in a straight line and appear to us on Earth to be marching across the night sky, according to NASA.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 July 2026

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