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
The force has recently expended its fleet of these bikes from five to 25.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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
De Grasse’s fleet of some two dozen ships sailed out of the bay to give battle.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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
The sound here builds upon the duo’s older work in two ways: It feels slightly fleeter, and more oriented toward the dance floor, and many of the lyrics have a darker tinge to them.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2018
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
I suggested larger and fleeter ships, to shorten travel on the ocean.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
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
Her eyes exact From the Moon-Sphinx that wanes and grows In wastes celestial, alien dreams Brought down on wings of fleetest beams.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
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
In the southern city of Yangsan, where the mercury hit a historic high of 42.5C on Sunday, fleets of sprinkler trucks have been roaming the streets, spraying water onto sun-baked roads.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The leather jacket belonged to the days of the Corsair when men dueled in the skies for possession of Pacific atolls and for airspace above the gray, endangered fleets.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Another day of hiding and a night of journey had fleeted by.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Alas! alas! my new-sprung joy fast fleeted away, almost as suddenly as it had arisen!
From The Boy Tar by Edward Read
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 John Bartlett
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
And so the vision fleeted, and Byfield’s language claimed attention.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
That’s simply no way to live, and it’s certainly not a way to enjoy a movie as anything deeper or more important than a fleeting experience.
From Salon ● 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
His peregrinations are the prelude to a love story as passionate as it is fleeting.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Meyers proceeds to tell an astonished Ed that he’s a huge fan of his long-forgotten 1979 poetry collection entitled “Way Past Go,” the postal worker’s fleeting brush with literary success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
All the mist had come alive with these fleeting forms, dodging, flickering, fading on every side.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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