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Based out of smaller home ports such as Greenport on Long Island, the Picket Force flotilla was known informally as the Corsair Fleet or, sometimes, the Hooligan Navy, an unsubtle nod to the ragtag collection of mariners at its core.
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David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
But as a flotilla of barges carried more than 6,000 athletes along the Seine, there was a notable absentee: Russia.
—Dan Sheldon, The Athletic, 27 July 2024
The Dutch Navy shadowed a Russian flotilla through the North Sea over the weekend, the Netherlands' defense ministry has said.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
Just a few months prior, Blackbeard and his small pirate flotilla had blockaded Charleston, South Carolina, for close to a week.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
But as a flotilla of barges carried more than 6,000 athletes along the Seine, there was a notable absentee: Russia.
—Dan Sheldon, The Athletic, 27 July 2024
The Dutch Navy shadowed a Russian flotilla through the North Sea over the weekend, the Netherlands' defense ministry has said.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
Just a few months prior, Blackbeard and his small pirate flotilla had blockaded Charleston, South Carolina, for close to a week.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flotilla
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The convoy’s passengers suit up, adding tactical vests over their clothes, ski masks over their heads.—
David Culver,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
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In 2007, its director visited Baghdad to assist with a program there; as his convoy passed through the city, security contractors hired by the private military firm Blackwater opened fire on approaching cars, killing seventeen Iraqi civilians.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
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In addition to seeking damages for the plaintiffs, the lawsuit seeks to impose on Bumble Bee a list of nine requirements for its supply fleet, such as minimum rest requirements, safety and first-aid training, and the end of using transshipments.—
Alex Riggins,
The Mercury News,
13 Mar. 2025
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Dollar General has made the decision to cut ties with less than 1 percent of the stores in its fleet.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
13 Mar. 2025
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Older kids will love watching the charming and clever Ferris fake sick, convince his best friend Cameron to skip school, and take over Chicago, even making a scene on a parade float.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority posts a St. Patrick’s Day guide and a map of the day’s parade route on its website.—
Gary Stoller,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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China’s navy showed off its J-15T fighter jet at the 2024 Zhuhai Air Show on Nov. 12, 2024.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2025
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It had only been delivered to the navy three years earlier in 2019.—
Simon Perry,
People.com,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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According to the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies, that attack scorched the refinery’s primary oil procession unit.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Looking ahead, Ash Wednesday on March 5 marks the beginning of Lent, leading to Holy Week and Easter on April 20, a period traditionally marked by outdoor processions and prayer services.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Yet the size of the Kremlin’s ICBM armada is many times larger, say the worldwide nuclear weapons monitors at the Federation of American Scientists.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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The armada includes a basket on wheels that can collect rebounds and pass balls to players, other robots that can stand in as defenders and a collection of Spot robots from Boston Dynamics.—
Ina Fried,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Flotilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flotilla. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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