flotilla

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Recent Examples of flotilla Israeli naval ships intercepted a flotilla attempting to deliver aid to Gaza and detained several activists, including Greta Thunberg. Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2025 Israel claims that the blockade is legal and has called the flotilla a provocation. Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025 Some activists have sought to deliver aid to Palestinians living in Gaza through flotillas, including the latest Global Sumud Flotilla. Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025 The Monaco Yacht Show, by contrast, features the world’s largest superyachts, along with a flotilla of tenders, yacht service providers, brokerage firms, and designers. Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flotilla
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Noun
  • Producer and colleague Monika Evstatieva and I were in that convoy, took small arms fire, but were unharmed.
    Tom Bowman, NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Live video showed a convoy of five Red Cross vehicles carrying the remaining hostages leaving Khan Younis in southern Gaza, to the cheers of onlookers and surrounded by Hamas officers.
    Yamiche Alcindor, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This is already happening in fleet management, where companies are moving from basic telematics (data from OBD ports) to videomatics, using visual AI to monitor driver behavior, route performance, and safety compliance.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Fermi would then add solar and battery-storage power and, eventually, a fleet of nuclear power reactors.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the country’s National Security Council, was among foreign dignitaries at the Pyongyang parade.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un displayed a new long-range intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade in Pyongyang that included foreign leaders on Friday.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The cute sweater is available in navy or merlot, a colorway that works great from fall into winter!
    Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The British navy had destroyed the first attempt to print the most important early English poem.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There are processions with music and folk dance performances, but the most impressive sight might be when local fishermen in rowboats illuminate the lake with torches.
    Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Farther back in the same procession marched William, then in his early 30s, who received a master’s degree.
    Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Dusk has just destroyed the political center of the Empire in the Galactic Council, the seat of the largest religion in the Empire, and also the entirety of Cloud Dominion, which had a massive armada and significant political influence.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Joining him for the indie-pop odyssey is an armada of guests: Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Amandla Stenberg, and Zadie Smith, among others.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Flotilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flotilla. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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