fleet
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The volatility in fuel prices is one of the reasons the district has continued investing in its electric fleet as a long-term cost-management strategy, the spokesperson said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Amazon launched its first batch of low-Earth orbit satellites last year and says it now has more than 390 satellites deployed, far behind Starlink's fleet of more than 10,000.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
“These closures are now complete and have improved fleet quality and will strengthen the earnings profile of the business over time,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Iran has been rushing oil and goods in and out of its ports since a preliminary peace deal signed in June lifted a U.S. blockade and dialed back enforcement actions against Tehran’s so-called shadow fleet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
German shipyards rushed to build a fleet powerful enough to engage Britain’s Royal Navy in battle.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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“Drive My Car” is a three-hour drama that seems lighter and fleeter than some two-hour ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
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
Tendulkar, still fleeter of foot than some of his peers, was the man in fruitless pursuit.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2011
But the Fans were fleeter of foot than he; at every stride they gained upon him, and in the end he was overtaken.
From The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo by Gilson, Charles
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
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
We cut the fleetest dogs loose from each team.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.
More airline operators are thus likely to require MRO services to extend the lifespans of their current fleets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time and keeping fleets operational is its major competitive advantage.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
After reviewing the histories of Boeing's 757, 767, 777, 787 and 737 Max fleets - more than 400 million flight hours - he found no case in which a switch failure shut down an engine.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Some ships have also transited Hormuz undetected: There have been reports that some ships have turned off their GPS-like signals and transited incognito, either for safety or because they are part of so-called shadow fleets.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
He told us of a king who fought wars across the Niger by releasing fleets of birds trained to hurl arrows.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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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Excited by the thousand novel and dazzling objects, the hours fleeted away like minutes; and it was late before they had executed or even formed any plans.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
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 Couperus, Louis
They made her recall Thurston, whose remembered comments fleeted through her mind, while his grave, manly image appealed to it in retrospective vision.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
I remember, I remember How my childhood fleeted by,— The mirth of its December And the warmth of its July.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
“It’s a fleeting thrill,” said Gordon at Schwab about chips stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
“Night Nurse” is as flirty and fleeting as a high school crush — intense enough to make an impact but staked more on possibility than actual sensation.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
For a fleeting few years before Prigozhin’s death, Wagner was a powerhouse in Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
But the death of Valery Averin lays bare how fragile - and how fleeting - such promises can be.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
For a fleeting moment, Ashmodai appeared to genuinely be considering her.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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