fleet
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Last month, a team of cyber sleuths with roots in California reported detecting a "fleet" of agents linked to Chinese tech giant Tencent seeking information from a map app.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Musk has pitched shareholders on the idea that small fleet owners could manage Cybercabs “like a shepherd tends their flock.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The sports fisherman noted that Alaska has a significant fleet of local trawlers, some of which operate on behalf of coastal Indigenous communities.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Describing the 14 jets as "state-of-the-art, fuel-efficient", CEO Ronald Lam said they would upgrade Cathay's total fleet and "enhance connectivity at our home hub Hong Kong".
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
And the first helicopters cut in from the ocean, carrying emergency supplies from a fleet of American ships offshore.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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She is fleeter and sharper than the old men who surround her, although she lacks their earthy humanity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
A new director, Warren Carlyle, has streamlined the show, shaving 20 minutes of running time through a combination of textual cuts and fleeter scenic design choices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Frankly, “The Lost Leonardo” is fleeter, more internally consistent, more absorbing.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
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
They all broke into a run, and, as they were younger and fleeter, they were soon at the fellow’s heels.
From The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out by Spencer Davenport
Utah also plays at the sixth-slowest pace in the league, in part because Gobert is a dominant half-court defender who isn’t the fleetest of foot end to end.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2020
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
Joe Lapchick’s squads in the 1950s were among the fleetest in the game, but since then only a handful of Knicks team could reasonably be described as using an up-tempo offense.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2016
"I'm not the fleetest of foot but I was just fast enough to get there."
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2015
Mary Flannigan, singularly ungraceful but a real racer, with flapping arms and bowed legs, could get over the ice faster than the fleetest boy from Hill-Top.
From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
Bhattacharya said commercial fleets could provide the next breakthrough.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Speed-limiters are increasingly common in commercial and government fleets; New York City is expanding their use in city-owned vehicles.
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
"We want to help organisations to upgrade their fleets and position themselves for future success," said Place.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The end of China’s treasure fleets gives us a clue.
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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A notice of extinct birds would be incomplete without reference to the dodo, the very existence of which had been lately questioned; so completely has it fleeted away from the earth.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
There had fleeted the happiest hours of her life.
From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Armando Palacio Vald?s
The washerwomen hailed us laughingly, and the noise of trees and water made an accompaniment to our dozing thoughts, as we fleeted down the stream.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
The fine, the fingering beams Their young delightful hour do feature down That fleeted else like day-dissolvèd dreams Or ringlet-race on burling Barrow brown.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
And that’s better than the fleeting pleasure of retaliatory pettiness, well-earned though it may be.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
With each new discovery, researchers are gaining a clearer picture of the remarkable state of matter that dominated the universe during its first fleeting moments after the Big Bang.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
In “Self-Portrait, Age 23,” matter is palpable, mesmerizing, intensely present—yet also fleeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The hope for a Dodgers comeback in the National League Championship Series was fleeting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
For the fragrance that came to each was like a memory of dewy mornings of unshadowed sun in some land of which the fair world in Spring is itself but a fleeting memory.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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