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
Everything was hauled to the surface and dumped into robotic barges, and then the fleet of cleanup robots sailed away.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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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
Some tempos, freshly rethought, were fleeter than you usually hear; other passages were nobly expansive.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2015
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
Speed, Malise, speed; the dun deer’s hide On fleeter foot was never tied; Herald of battle, fate and fear Stretch around thy fleet career.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Balch, Frederic Homer
All athletic actions are essentially micro-decisions, and even the fleetest and most impulsive seeming NFL wide receiver must make feints, counter-feints, and judgments.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
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
This is the fleetest, funniest and — in keeping with its adolescent protagonist — most sophomoric of the volumes translated into English thus far.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2015
"I'm not the fleetest of foot but I was just fast enough to get there."
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2015
Mary Flannigan, singularly ungraceful but a real racer, with flapping arms and bowed legs, could get over the ice faster than the fleetest boy from Hill-Top.
From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell
McMahon also cites a study that found a 20% crash reduction in commercial fleets using telematics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
Gatik said PepsiCo has one of the largest fleets of its autonomous trucks in the U.S., but it declined to name its other American clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Seven of those fleets sailed from China between A.D.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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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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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
The old word for float: as "we fleeted down the river with our boats;" and Shakspeare makes Antony say, "Our sever'd navy too Have knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most sea-like."
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
And now, as they drove Southward, day and night, Through storm and calm, the shores that fleeted by Grew wilder, grander, with his growing soul, And pregnant with the approaching mystery.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred
So they fleeted the too-short time in the sparkling blue and white world, drinking the air like celestial wine.
From The Invader A Novel by Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa)
“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
Her links to south-west Wales are not widely known, as she only made fleeting references to what she called a "safe haven" during the war.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Blockbuster earnings from Micron in the U.S. midweek appeared to have steadied nerves among investors, but the calm proved fleeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Microchip stocks tumbled on Tuesday, but a look at similar one-day downturns in the semiconductor sector shows the declines are often fleeting.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
As she did, a fleeting thought occurred to her.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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