fleet
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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
Find insight on Apollo’s proposed takeover of easyJet, the U.S. barge fleet and more in the latest Market Talks covering the auto and transport sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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
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
When Regan first told me about her security-cameras-turned-explosives revelation, I’d pictured hundreds of cameras, a number so big even a fleet of people couldn’t retrieve them in time.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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
“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
Email — already an old-fashioned form — isn’t really the electronic replacement of the letter but a different mode of communication entirely: fleeter, tactical, somehow both more and less disposable.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2020
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
Thus the proportions discovered by Lysippus were peculiarly appropriate for the lighter, fleeter gods, as Apollo and Hermes.
From Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
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
As an event of universal interest throughout the nation, the news was doubtless conveyed with all speed possible by fleetest messenger.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
Bhattacharya said commercial fleets could provide the next breakthrough.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
But police forces are fighting back, and are employing increasingly sophisticated ways to tackle e-bike related crime including drones and their own fleets of e-motorbikes.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 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
That way, when you saw a tire track in the dirt, you knew instantly if it belonged to the great fleets of Kamkwamba Toyota, for instance, or Gilbert Company LTD.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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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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Alas! alas! my new-sprung joy fast fleeted away, almost as suddenly as it had arisen!
From The Boy Tar by Edward Read
The fingers had closed upon him, and he had torn them apart, had thrust death away, had clutched life as it fleeted from him and had drawn it back to hold for the time being.
From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen
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
Years, years fleeted over— I stood at her foot: The bud had grown blossom, The blossom was fruit.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
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
The hope for a Dodgers comeback in the National League Championship Series was fleeting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
He warned that Fed hawkishness is already priced in and that dollar strength could be fleeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
I need a moment of freedom, no matter how fleeting it may be.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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