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flotilla

[floh-til-uh] / floʊˈtɪl ə /
NOUN
small fleet
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The Sun leads with reports of a "dinghy flotilla in Channel", writing that the boats carried "up to 1,000 migrants headed for Britain".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

I instead recall coasting past a flotilla of icebergs in Alaska’s Glacier Bay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The warning was issued in a December 2025 report by New Zealand's Defence Force and Ministry of Foreign Affairs while they were monitoring a People's Liberation Army navy flotilla in the Philippine Sea.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

There was no warning from the Iranian navy to the ships on radio or telling them to turn back, according to the seafarers in the flotilla.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

With Nixonian cunning, Calliope unwrapped and flushed away a flotilla of unused Tampax.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

And their experience was actually quite mellow compared to other flotillas because of how social media had been reacting to it.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2025

This battle between Team USA and Europe at Bethpage Black is also a proxy war between rival flotillas of wonks and analysts who advise both teams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2025

Aside from government jobs, fishing is the only viable way to make a living, and since the arrival of the Chinese flotillas even that has become difficult.

From BBC ● May 20, 2025

There are no bald billionaires in super yachts or reality TV stars in flotillas of private jets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

From information received, it would appear that three flotillas had been ordered to bombard Dunkirk, La Panne, and Bray Dunes.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various




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