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Recent Examples of navy
Kamikaze sank their first ship on Oct. 25, 1944, when a navy Zero pilot smashed into the USS St. Lo in the Philippine Sea while carrying a pair of 550-pound bombs.
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CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
There’s also a boxwood green with a coastal navy that just pops.
—Paula Conway, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
But its navy controlled enough of the Black Sea to blockade Ukrainian ports, choking the country’s economy and threatening global food security because Ukraine is a major grain exporter.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Other key neutrals are navy (especially paired with crimson), olive (for a pop of nostalgic color) and gray and black.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 8 Apr. 2025
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CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
There’s also a boxwood green with a coastal navy that just pops.
—Paula Conway, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
But its navy controlled enough of the Black Sea to blockade Ukrainian ports, choking the country’s economy and threatening global food security because Ukraine is a major grain exporter.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Other key neutrals are navy (especially paired with crimson), olive (for a pop of nostalgic color) and gray and black.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for navy
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The mental health therapy flotilla currently afloat is not prepared to handle it and is barely keeping above water as is.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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During the Chinese naval voyage, an Australian military official told local media that the Chinese flotilla likely deployed with a nuclear-powered submarine.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And there could be signficant upsides for the company’s broader business, such as expanding the user base for Amazon Web Services and providing connectivity to the company’s fleets of shipping vehicles.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
29 Apr. 2025
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Delta alone saved more than 40 million gallons of fuel in 2024 by optimizing operations and upgrading its fleet.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The Israel Defense Forces originally claimed the convoy was moving suspiciously, without headlights or flashing lights, toward Israeli troops and that members of the emergency teams were militants.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2025
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Then on Saturday morning, Jihan saw a convoy of gunmen set her neighbor’s house aflame on the outskirts of al-Qusour neighborhood.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Yet the size of the Kremlin’s ICBM armada is many times larger, say the worldwide nuclear weapons monitors at the Federation of American Scientists.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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The armada includes a basket on wheels that can collect rebounds and pass balls to players, other robots that can stand in as defenders and a collection of Spot robots from Boston Dynamics.—
Ina Fried,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Navy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navy. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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