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[fleet] / flit /




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Christopher and his brother were both in the 2023 Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” starring Josh Groban.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

There is a bustle about the main street and sitting with a coffee by the banks of the River Fleet feels like a good place to leave your worries behind you.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

They targeted Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, destroying or damaging one-fifth of its ships, according to the British defense ministry, and forcing Russia to pull back its fleet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Ukraine, whose conventional navy, like Iran’s, has been largely destroyed, has used naval drones to target Russian warships, decimating the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Germany’s High Seas Fleet had been bottled up in port for nearly two years, unwilling to venture out and engage the British Grand Fleet, which was poised and waiting in the north of Scotland.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman




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