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fleet

[fleet] / flit /




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"Every large business with a fleet is looking at this issue very carefully, it is very much on their agenda," said Casci.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Ultimately, the maritime drive aims to use offshore nuclear power to run ports across the country and fuel a fleet of privately owned cargo vessels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

According to the crowdsourced website RobotaxiTracker, 187 Cybercabs are active in Austin, representing half of Tesla’s fleet in the city.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Graham’s office later boasted that the work would lead to new technology that would “ensure that our fleet is ready for the fights of the future.”

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

“In the fourth century B.C., the sailing of the entire Attic fleet was delayed just because a soldier sneezed.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

A new director, Warren Carlyle, has streamlined the show, shaving 20 minutes of running time through a combination of textual cuts and fleeter scenic design choices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

Frankly, “The Lost Leonardo” is fleeter, more internally consistent, more absorbing.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2021

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

My charger is fleeter than the horses of his state carriage; I can reach Marly as soon as he.

From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton

All athletic actions are essentially micro-decisions, and even the fleetest and most impulsive seeming NFL wide receiver must make feints, counter-feints, and judgments.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022

The stagecraft by which customers who just a minute ago were getting the closest of shaves are removed isn’t the fleetest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2019

This is the fleetest, funniest and — in keeping with its adolescent protagonist — most sophomoric of the volumes translated into English thus far.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2015

"I'm not the fleetest of foot but I was just fast enough to get there."

From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2015

He taught her to ride his fleetest steed At a five-barred fence, or a ditch at need, And the Captain's horses, his hounds, and his child Were famous from sea to forests wild.

From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various

"We want to help organisations to upgrade their fleets and position themselves for future success," said Place.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Sales are down sharply and car-rental companies like Hertz that bet big on them have dramatically shrunk their EV fleets due to lackluster demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

California ports consider $60-a-trip subsidies as truckers struggle to cover the steep costs of zero-emission fleets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

It found that most of those ships do not fully comply with the Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency, a guide created by leading ocean-focused civil society groups detailing accountability standards for industrial fishing fleets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Seven of those fleets sailed from China between A.D.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Another day of hiding and a night of journey had fleeted by.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The washerwomen hailed us laughingly, and the noise of trees and water made an accompaniment to our dozing thoughts, as we fleeted down the stream.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

I remember, I remember How my childhood fleeted by,— The mirth of its December And the warmth of its July.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

Years, years fleeted over— I stood at her foot: The bud had grown blossom, The blossom was fruit.

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various

Gaily the pure water, air’s first cousin, fleeted along the rude aqueduct, whose sides and floor it had made green with grasses.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

By comparison, meeting with elected elites, whose fleeting power depends on the whims of the populace, reminds him all too much of his own limitations.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

The hope for a Dodgers comeback in the National League Championship Series was fleeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Don’t assume future financial setbacks will be fleeting, though.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Researchers must effectively capture a snapshot of that fleeting moment and use the resulting particle patterns to reconstruct the properties of the quark-gluon plasma.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

As she did, a fleeting thought occurred to her.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti


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