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fleet

[fleet] / flit /




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Additionally, the law includes sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin, senior figures within the Russian government as well as banks and other financial institutions and Russia's "shadow fleet" of tankers used to circumvent existing sanctions.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Tau operates a fleet of eight robots, shuttling them around the city two at a time in a blue Honda minivan.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Australian company Ocius has been operating the Bluebottle fleet from a military base in Darwin in northern Australia, and opened an east coast factory in Sydney on Friday as it ramps up production.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Green SM will start with 500 vehicles for its Los Angeles fleet, along with 500 drivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

“You’d think he was running a whole fleet of ships, single-handed, to hear her take on.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

Frankly, “The Lost Leonardo” is fleeter, more internally consistent, more absorbing.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2021

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

Up! up! to its home on the mountain crag, Where the condor builds its nest, I mount far fleeter than hunted stag, I float far higher than Switzer flag— Hurrah for the lightning's guest!

From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by W. H. (William Henry) Rhodes

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

Thirty-four of the planet’s fleetest of foot - 20 men and 14 women from the United States and eight other countries - are in the hunt.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2015

We cut the fleetest dogs loose from each team.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook

California ports consider $60-a-trip subsidies as truckers struggle to cover the steep costs of zero-emission fleets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Lincoln Nation conducted major combat operations, enforced naval blockade and demonstrated the presence and power of the carrier strike group and multiple numbered fleets, all while keeping up unprecedented operational tempo.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

"This will be very challenging for households and companies that drive a lot of miles, from commuters, haulage and delivery firms, businesses with large fleets all the way through to sole traders," he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

That makes the issue of how many Canadair fleets are available to member states more pressing than ever.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Ships smaller than the great war dromonds of the green lands, aye, but thrice the size of any common longship, with deep hulls and savage rams, fit to meet the king’s own fleets in battle.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Another day of hiding and a night of journey had fleeted by.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Each grace that fleeted unobserved away, Starts into life when those it deck'd decay; Regret fresh beauty on the corse bestows, And self-reproach is mingled with our woes.

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson

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 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 Sir Edward Belcher

There had fleeted the happiest hours of her life.

From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Armando Palacio Vald?s

Don’t assume future financial setbacks will be fleeting, though.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Researchers must effectively capture a snapshot of that fleeting moment and use the resulting particle patterns to reconstruct the properties of the quark-gluon plasma.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

John McGinn bought a bunch of fouls; Oli McBurnie battled hard in what McGinn called a "thankless task"; there were some fleeting moments when the crowd got energised and hope, or perhaps delusion, took hold.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

MS NOW’s live event asks whether journalism can build something more durable than a click or a fleeting social-media interaction.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

He murmured old childish tunes out of the Shire, and snatches of Mr. Bilbo’s rhymes that came into his mind like fleeting glimpses of the country of his home.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien


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