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fleet

[fleet] / flit /




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According to the crowdsourced website RobotaxiTracker, 187 Cybercabs are active in Austin, representing half of Tesla’s fleet in the city.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Graham’s office later boasted that the work would lead to new technology that would “ensure that our fleet is ready for the fights of the future.”

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

The future is the Cybercab, a vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals that will autonomously convey customers in a fleet of robotaxis for hire.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

The Ghost Shark can travel long distances and would work in tandem with the crewed submarine fleet, officials said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The sleepy pretend princess was escorted to her rooms by a fleet of crisply dressed bellboys and hotel maids.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

There's nae jinkin' Peter, nae antelope's fleeter; Nae cuttin' acquaintance wi' Peter M'Craw!

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller

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

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

As an event of universal interest throughout the nation, the news was doubtless conveyed with all speed possible by fleetest messenger.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

The money will go towards 14 schemes across England, including new urgent care centres, ambulance fleets and upgrades to emergency departments.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Pacific Island countries with small populations have struggled to patrol millions of kilometres of Pacific Ocean to combat illegal fishing fleets from Asia and the passage of "narco subs" deployed from South America.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

It found that most of those ships do not fully comply with the Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency, a guide created by leading ocean-focused civil society groups detailing accountability standards for industrial fishing fleets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Smaller carriers also lack the bargaining leverage of major fleets to demand full surcharge protections from shippers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

In the battle between the British and French fleets in Chesapeake Bay, thanks to Washington’s agents, the French may have been reading Admiral Graves’s flag signals.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

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

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

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 Robert Louis Stevenson

Alas! alas! my new-sprung joy fast fleeted away, almost as suddenly as it had arisen!

From The Boy Tar by Edward Read

There was something lyrical about the “dirty ship” as with the buoyancy of her cargoless holds she fleeted to the south.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden

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

By comparison, meeting with elected elites, whose fleeting power depends on the whims of the populace, reminds him all too much of his own limitations.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 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

It was a fleeting spell at Parkhead that yielded three goals for the former England striker in just eight appearances.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“The Way You Look Tonight” lasts because every element serves one idea: Beauty is fleeting, yet memory can preserve its warmth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

What bothered her most about that fleeting vision was that she felt it was exactly like her, as if she had seen herself twenty years in advance.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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