fleet
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Percoco said that an autonomous fleet could be between six and eight times as profitable as a human-driven fleet.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
It also said they bought a fleet of exotic cars, ranging in value from $100,000 to $3.8m.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
That altitude and speed puts them out of range for Ukraine's current fleet of interceptors and "wipe out the progress we had made in the fight", Ukrainian military expert Sergiy Zgurets told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Separately, a fleet of U.S. warships is imposing a blockade of Iranian ports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Sometimes it was a customer; most often it was simply a visitor—from a laborer with wooden klompen on his feet to a fleet owner—all bringing their problems to Father.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
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
Will a race-horse ever be reared fleeter than Eclipse?
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
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
Edney, the fleetest player on the team, had been doing this sort of thing since taking his talents from the home driveway to youth league games at Victoria Park gym in Carson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2020
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
He taught her to ride his fleetest steed At a five-barred fence, or a ditch at need, And the Captain's horses, his hounds, and his child Were famous from sea to forests wild.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
“If Taiwan gets encircled by fleets, no supplies will be able to get through,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Thousands of Bombardier aircraft currently operate in US airlines' domestic fleets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mom-and-pop businesses, such as small trucking fleets or family farms, are hit harder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Tesla on Thursday also began allowing customers to apply to operate their own fleets of Cybercabs, although details about timing and other factors weren’t provided.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Both countries deployed new fleets of submarines packed with nuclear missiles.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Another day of hiding and a night of journey had fleeted by.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The dodo will be seen no more; the race has fleeted away.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
There was something lyrical about the “dirty ship” as with the buoyancy of her cargoless holds she fleeted to the south.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
A score of lustres will have fleeted Before the Ministry of Art, Though it should make an early start, Can hope to see the thing completed.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
Gaily the pure water, air’s first cousin, fleeted along the rude aqueduct, whose sides and floor it had made green with grasses.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
In a city where everything can feel fleeting, Kiko Kostadinov has created something that asks you to linger long enough for a memory to form — and perhaps, eventually, become part of the next collection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
A winning percentage short of 60% over nearly four years in charge and only fleeting success in implementing a more ambitious, expansive gameplan leaves little goodwill to fall back on.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Yet any tarnish to the U.S.’s standing could be fleeting.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 6, 2026
His peregrinations are the prelude to a love story as passionate as it is fleeting.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
For a fleeting moment, I wished I could see the hugeness of that achievement from the perspective of other people.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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