flotilla
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While the flotilla of ships carrying back migrants was highly publicised, Myanmar this week revealed it has also been organising weekly flights returning an additional roughly 8,000 migrants since January.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
About a month later, they pulled off their first small-group flotilla in the Spanish Virgin Islands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Costumed participants danced and waved from a colourful flotilla of 80 decorated vessels as they made their way through the city's waterways.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
I instead recall coasting past a flotilla of icebergs in Alaska’s Glacier Bay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Another deserted the flotilla and returned to Spain.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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The country is not facing flotillas of small boats arriving from the North Sea or the Baltic.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
This battle between Team USA and Europe at Bethpage Black is also a proxy war between rival flotillas of wonks and analysts who advise both teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2025
A joint command center with officials from all four parties will be set up immediately in Istanbul to monitor every movement of the flotillas.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2022
One-third of Vietnam’s 96 million people live along the serpentine coastline, where humble flotillas of identical blue-and-red boats bob in ramshackle harbors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
Heavy losses amongst the German unterseebooten flotillas had necessitated the U99 being pressed into an extension of present service.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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