navies

plural of navy

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Noun
  • Previous attempts by activist flotillas to break the blockade have largely failed and sometimes sparked deadly clashes, including during the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla raid.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • What has happened to previous aid flotillas?
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Beijing fields one of the world’s largest missile fleets and has taken the lead over Washington in hypersonic missile technology—maneuverable weapons that travel more than five times the speed of sound.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The company has traced the attack to ransomware, in which hackers encrypt entire fleets of computers and demand payment (usually in cryptocurrency) to unlock them.
    Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Navies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navies. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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