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navy

[ney-vee] / ˈneɪ vi /


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Orizzonte Sistemi Navali signed a 3.7 billion euro agreement to supply two destroyers to the Italian navy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Lt Cdr Ben Brown, commanding officer of the Royal Navy's Bravo Squadron bomb disposal team, added navy disposal experts were continuing to help police with the unexploded "air-dropped bomb".

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The Coast Guard said it was coordinating its search efforts with the Mexican navy and commercial vessels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Working with navy divers, Andresen and her colleagues collected water and sediment from around the wreck.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Next to it, there’s a painting of a much younger Granddaddy in his navy uniform.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

Russia and China have also moved closer, with their navies and air forces conducting joint exercises in areas around Japan, promoting frequent scrambles by Japanese jets.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Foreign navies could test out new weapons systems at a maritime missile-range facility north of Oahu—tests they are often unable to undertake back home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The attacks forced international navies to instead tackle the Houthi threat, thus allowing armed groups on the Somali coast to take advantage of the security lapse.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

What’s become apparent, Meade posits, is that control of the oceans through navies is no longer straightforward either.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

The conquest and administration of this maritime proto-empire were achieved by navies of large canoes, each holding up to 150 men.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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