fleet
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And even strong Jones Act supporters recognize that waivers can be appropriate when genuine shortages arise and the existing fleet can’t meet the need.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Pant's trial, scheduled to begin on December 15, could become a key test as European nations step up action against Russia's shadow fleet.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Robotaxi scaling appears well positioned, with the limited Cybercab test fleet continuing to validate the technology,” J.P.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
As the sun dips below the horizon, a fleet of onlookers on jet skis and boats idle on the water to catch a peek of the vivacious scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
They were convinced that Germany’s submarine fleet could destroy Britain’s ability to wage war within a few months.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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“Drive My Car” is a three-hour drama that seems lighter and fleeter than some two-hour ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 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
She was probably the fleeter of the two.
From The Bartlett Mystery by Louis Tracy
He is just about the fastest marathoner alive, and so much faster than everyone else in the race, even if this marathon does not necessarily favor the fleetest in the field.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
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
"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
Even Leslie Stephen himself, fleetest of foot of the whole Alpine brotherhood, once upon a time returned discomfited from it.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
Kodiak’s “virtual driver” system, which is designed to be integrated across fleets, logged more than 40,000 paid driverless hours across 35 trucks during the second quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The bank projects robotaxi fleets to number roughly 2.5 million vehicles globally by 2035.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Unlike the Hollywood Bowl, which has fleets of shuttles ready to go, F&M Bank Amphitheater’s shuttle operation felt a bit leaner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
At Geek+'s factory in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei, which the BBC visited, fleets of the robots are built and tested before being shipped to warehouses around the world.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The commands of the monarchs and merchants who organized colonizing fleets were conveyed in writing.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Another day of hiding and a night of journey had fleeted by.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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There had fleeted the happiest hours of her life.
From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Armando Palacio Vald?s
They had been full and busy years; and Constance was satisfied with the years that had fleeted by, only she was distressed that it all went so fast and that she would be old before....
From Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus
“I had rather count on Aunt,” said Flora, with one of her rare and adorable smiles, which fleeted as it came.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Excited by the thousand novel and dazzling objects, the hours fleeted away like minutes; and it was late before they had executed or even formed any plans.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
Once the fear wears off and the road becomes home, the group develops its own rituals and routines, but maintains its connection to what came before all this, however fleeting it may be.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Researchers in Japan have captured an extraordinarily fast electronic transformation inside a metal-organic framework, observing a fleeting state and the hidden state that followed within just 30 femtoseconds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
"The reality is that these years in your kids' lives are so fleeting, and I'm super aware of the time," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Meyers proceeds to tell an astonished Ed that he’s a huge fan of his long-forgotten 1979 poetry collection entitled “Way Past Go,” the postal worker’s fleeting brush with literary success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Pim always acts like the elderly father who once had the same fleeting impulses, but who can no longer relate to me as a friend, no matter how hard he tries.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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