flotilla

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Recent Examples of flotilla Israel says boat was carrying minimal aid Israeli officials said the flotilla carried what amounted to less than a truckload of aid. Yesica Fisch, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025 Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, said on social media that the flotilla carries more than food. Abeer Salman, CNN Money, 8 June 2025 Beyond the event’s motoryachts, a flotilla of sailing vessels will be moored in the harbor. Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 28 May 2025 The flotillas of seals and sea lions plying Puget Sound today are a conservation success story. Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for flotilla
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Noun
  • This article was updated to reflect OCHA’s statement saying Palestinians were killed waiting for food rations arriving in U.N. convoys.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 18 June 2025
  • At other moments, towns have seen their power cut and cartel convoys parade through their communities.
    Edgar H. Clemente, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • The resort also uses a fleet of electric vehicles for day-to-day operations.
    Julie Olum, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2025
  • Jeep and Dodge maker Stellantis, meanwhile, recently partnered with U.S.-based Ample to integrate battery swapping technology to a fleet of 100 Fiat 500 EVs in Madrid, Spain.
    Dylan Butts,Sam Meredith, CNBC, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Conversely, hard power is demonstrated by, say, a military exercise, such as a parade featuring tanks.
    Jennifer Boulanger, New York Daily News, 28 June 2025
  • Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers fly over Red Square during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 7, 2017.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Mexico's operation also included the attorney general's office, the army and the navy.
    ALEXANDRA MENDOZA THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, Arkansas Online, 20 June 2025
  • China has the world's largest navy by hull count, including numerous amphibious vessels capable of projecting air and land power from sea to shore during a potential island-landing campaign across the Taiwan Strait.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Later that morning, other Cornell on Fire activists held up a banner for students and faculty marching in the graduation procession to see.
    Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • About nineteen minutes in, after a meditative string of A-flats, a halting procession of some two hundred and seventy-five chords begins—permutations of eight basic types, containing up to twelve notes.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The small armada competed in a regatta around buoys, practicing how to keep moving in light headwinds.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2025
  • Despite these pronouncements, Israel’s aerial armada appeared to strike Iran with near impunity.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025

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“Flotilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flotilla. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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