navy

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Recent Examples of navy For the evening at the Palace of Versailles in Paris, the Queen wore a bespoke navy dress by Dior with a matching full-length cape. Stephanie Petit, People.com, 8 July 2025 China is building a new fleet of replenishment ships—capable of providing supplies to other vessels at sea—as the East Asian power's navy expands its overseas presence. Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025 In March 2024, the court also issued arrest warrants for Viktor Sokolov, a Russian navy officer and former commander of the Black Sea Fleet, and Sergei Kobylash, a lLieutenant general in the Russian Armed Forces. Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 26 June 2025 The Captive, starring Julio Peña as Miguel de Cervantes, a wounded navy soldier who, after being taken captive to Algiers in 1575, tries to escape and enthralls those around him with this storytelling. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for navy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navy
Noun
  • The Israeli navy intercepted the flotilla, named the Madleen, early on Monday.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
  • Israeli officials said the flotilla carried what amounted to less than a truckload of aid.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Waymo, owned by Google parent Alphabet, opened up a driverless robotaxi service to the public in the Phoenix area in 2020, and now operates a fleet of 400 robotaxis there, the company told CNBC on Thursday.
    Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 10 July 2025
  • The fleet is split between two home ports on the East and West Coasts.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Outside, dozens of protesters faced off against a convoy of federal officers who used gas canisters and flash-bang grenades to keep the crowd away from the former tomato farm.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 10 July 2025
  • The United Nations has said at least 613 Palestinians have been killed close to the foundation's sites or around humanitarian convoys.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The potential death knell for an armada of space discovery missions has been reverberating not just across NASA, but also throughout the U.S. universities that help conceive or design these flights.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • Deep in the seething, fecund Amazon jungle, a seeker finds wisdom, beauty, exciting new recipes, and inexhaustible armadas of biting insects.
    Olivia James, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025

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“Navy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navy. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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