fleet
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Pant's trial, scheduled to begin on December 15, could become a key test as European nations step up action against Russia's shadow fleet.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Tesla “also noted that further Model Y additions to the robotaxi fleet are being limited, reflecting management’s conviction in the near-term scalability of Cybercab,” added Gupta, who rates Tesla’s stock at neutral.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
As the sun dips below the horizon, a fleet of onlookers on jet skis and boats idle on the water to catch a peek of the vivacious scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The company added that it was investing in its air conditioning systems across its European river cruise fleet this winter, including significant upgrades.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
On the dark and foggy night of August 27, almost ten thousand American troops snuck off Brooklyn in a fleet of small boats.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
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
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
That’s why it’d make more sense for the big-hitting Bernard Pollard to start ahead of the fleeter Tom Zbikowski.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2011
Tendulkar, still fleeter of foot than some of his peers, was the man in fruitless pursuit.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2011
About one minute lasted his ride upon this steed, fleeter than Polkadot at his best.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
He is just about the fastest marathoner alive, and so much faster than everyone else in the race, even if this marathon does not necessarily favor the fleetest in the field.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
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
"I'm not the fleetest of foot but I was just fast enough to get there."
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2015
Emory says of the Maricopa interpreter, Thirsty Hawk, before alluded to, that he came running into their camp on foot and “appeared to keep pace with the fleetest horse.”
From Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona by J. William Lloyd
Kodiak’s “virtual driver” system, which is designed to be integrated across fleets, logged more than 40,000 paid driverless hours across 35 trucks during the second quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
It offloaded bare-bones models into rental fleets, sapping resale values.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
For commercial fishing fleets, these changes can be disastrous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
At Geek+'s factory in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei, which the BBC visited, fleets of the robots are built and tested before being shipped to warehouses around the world.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The United States has formidable naval fleets in both places, and the Japanese want to disable those fleets as quickly as possible.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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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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
At intervals a light veil obscured the moonlight, as a filmy cloud fleeted across the moon; and a bitter wind blew shrill across the gulf.
From The Three Impostors or The Transmutations by Arthur Machen
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
Given the phrase’s innate poeticism, it’s often used by scholars, authors, casanovas and perhaps overly didactic filmmakers to convey the fleeting intensity of life’s most burning joys.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Yet his initial tenure in the English top flight was fleeting.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Researchers in Japan have captured an extraordinarily fast electronic transformation inside a metal-organic framework, observing a fleeting state and the hidden state that followed within just 30 femtoseconds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
What we do get in these fleeting visions are scenes about connection, its joys and tensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
A fleeting expression that might have been unaccustomed mirth, or might have been a twinge of pain, went across her grandmother’s face.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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