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Recent Examples of navy
Beau, 18, looked dapper in a navy-blue striped suit.
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Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Deep colors, like purple, green, or navy work as well.
—Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
Ukraine has also leaned heavily on uncrewed surface vessels as a substitute for a conventional navy, using explosive-laden sea drones to ram Russian ships.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
Tensions have been running especially high since August, when a Chinese navy destroyer and a coast guard vessel collided near Scarborough Shoal while seeking to disrupt a Philippine government resupply mission.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
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Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Deep colors, like purple, green, or navy work as well.
—Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
Ukraine has also leaned heavily on uncrewed surface vessels as a substitute for a conventional navy, using explosive-laden sea drones to ram Russian ships.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
Tensions have been running especially high since August, when a Chinese navy destroyer and a coast guard vessel collided near Scarborough Shoal while seeking to disrupt a Philippine government resupply mission.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for navy
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In a recent statement to PBS, Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, defended the flotilla activists’ treatment at Ketziot.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
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This seizure comes just days after Israeli forces intercepted another aid flotilla and arrested the activists on board, including Greta Thunberg, an outspoken critic of Israel.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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Fermi would then add solar and battery-storage power and, eventually, a fleet of nuclear power reactors.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Producer and colleague Monika Evstatieva and I were in that convoy, took small arms fire, but were unharmed.—
Tom Bowman,
NPR,
14 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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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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“Navy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navy. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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