fleet
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A new report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange notes that “without sustained investment in fleet replacement and waterway infrastructure, higher transportation costs could pressure farm margins, grain basis levels and U.S. export competitiveness.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Cathay said this year it aims to add 150 aircraft in the next 10 years if market conditions are favourable, replacing the current jets and bringing the fleet to around 300 aircraft.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
You were supposed to imagine a fleet of the vehicles rolling off SpaceX Starships that had landed on Mars, possibly driven by androids quoting The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026
Musk also wrote that the Cybertruck fleet “will be around for a long time.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
They’d shown up with their own fleet of fan vans, but no matter how loud they yelled, they were drowned out by our chants.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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The Rams defense will try to neutralize the 44-year-old Brady, who is not as mobile as younger, fleeter quarterbacks but remains a master at moving in the pocket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2022
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds, Russell and Baez and Riz.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2016
Something kind of similar is happening in the fleeter, more escapist Arrow and The Flash, two ongoing series on the CW based on DC Comics characters.
From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2015
Tendulkar, still fleeter of foot than some of his peers, was the man in fruitless pursuit.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2011
She was much fleeter than he and would have reached the woods safely, but she stepped suddenly on a snake that she had not seen as it lay coiled up in the grass.
From Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
The stagecraft by which customers who just a minute ago were getting the closest of shaves are removed isn’t the fleetest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2019
Calderon, whose contract runs through next season, has never been the fleetest afoot, and his defense has not aged well.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2016
"I'm not the fleetest of foot but I was just fast enough to get there."
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2015
Thirty-four of the planet’s fleetest of foot - 20 men and 14 women from the United States and eight other countries - are in the hunt.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2015
But Lufra,—whom from Douglas' side Nor bribe nor threat could e'er divide, The fleetest hound in all the North,— Brave Lufra saw and darted forth.
From To Your Dog and To My Dog by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt
Bhattacharya said commercial fleets could provide the next breakthrough.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
U.S. adversaries meanwhile “built fleets at a pace not seen in generations,” it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
“The biggest online retailers and grocers are racing ahead, building their own delivery fleets, warehouses, membership programs, and AI shopping assistants,” the companies said in their release.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Companies at the forefront of drone deliveries say they are also working to reduce the noise of their fleets.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The fleets set their courses by maps and written sailing directions prepared by previous expeditions.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Another day of hiding and a night of journey had fleeted by.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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My new-sprung joy was short-lived, and fast fleeted away.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
They had been full and busy years; and Constance was satisfied with the years that had fleeted by, only she was distressed that it all went so fast and that she would be old before....
From Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus
The eventful days leading slowly, but all too surely, towards the tragedy which is too apt to follow the idyllic course of our early years, fleeted by; a too peaceful, undisturbed period had arrived.
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood
The old word for float: as "we fleeted down the river with our boats;" and Shakspeare makes Antony say, "Our sever'd navy too Have knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most sea-like."
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
It’s brief and shows little, but the fleeting moment will inform everything that happens in writer-director Lance Hammer’s crushing second feature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
There seems to be far less in the incident at full speed, that the hold of the shirt is more fleeting with minimal impact.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
The result is a fleeting droplet of primordial matter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Mr. Seger’s nocturnal songs about romantic summers, fleeting love and teenage boredom stirred the imaginations of aging rock fans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
No matter what the reason, I get that time is fleeting.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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