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convoy

[kon-voi, kuhn-voi, kon-voi] / ˈkɒn vɔɪ, kənˈvɔɪ, ˈkɒn vɔɪ /
NOUN
guard, escort
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Prosecutors accused Mazari and Chattha of removing barriers from a road designated for the team's security convoy and obstructing police officers at Zero Point, a major cloverleaf road junction in Islamabad.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Less than 24 hours after losing Brazil’s presidential election, Flávio Bolsonaro appeared to vanish into a convoy of four dark cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Less than 24 hours after losing the presidential election, he appeared to vanish into a convoy of four dark cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

A convoy of about a dozen vans started the operation shortly after 08:00 BST, with roads temporarily blocked by patrol cars.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

He had no qualifications to recommend him, but there was at least a chance he could hire onto a merchant convoy and work his way there.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Ukraine's military general staff urged people not to trust unverified reports or spread rumours about "the routes, time and place of the movement of people and humanitarian convoys".

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Besides often keeping a low profile and maintaining an unremarkable wardrobe, Dangote sometimes drives himself, without the long security convoys associated with many Nigerian elites.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

US First Lady Melania Trump, who helped broker the ceasefire along with Pope Leo XIV, said on Tuesday that the area involved had been expanded to provide "safe passage" for humanitarian convoys.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Then, in safer waters, national or third-party vessels await for ship-to-ship transfers from the convoys to then sail to the buyer’s final destinations.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

But at dawn, more convoys of trucks filled with soldiers came roaring past on their way back into the city, motorcycle outriders waving us frantically to one side.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were conveyed and convoyed.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

We convoyed over in shifts, along with other companies from their individual base camps around Mosul.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2018

We were 142 people that convoyed together, at minimum one mission a day/night.

From Newsweek ● Mar. 1, 2015

In all, the blimps convoyed 89,000 merchant ships and troopships overseas, often through areas infested by wolf packs of Nazi subs, without losing a single ship.

From Time Magazine Archive

On November 17, 1926, when White was still settling into the new job, two new inmates were convoyed up the prison’s horseshoe driveway by U.S. marshals.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

“If something didn’t send an alarm signal that we needed to have serious assets or protection and convoying of our vessels in that area then I want to know why not.”

From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2019

By the time I reached San Clemente, there were four of us convoying at about 20 mph on the 5 to Oceanside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

Dr Labrosse said the main application would be for convoying, where a series of automated vehicles are led by a human driver or a smarter robot at the front.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2015

We are back right where we started before we began convoying.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet will a breath of Spring homeward convoying attend us, And the mellow flutings of passionate Philomel. 

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges


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