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armada

noun as in group of ships or aircraft

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The world’s greatest armada was allowed to rot in the harbor, and the Chinese court burned maps to prevent future voyages.

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And so the mission, as Kimmel put it earlier this week, is to show up not because it’s the Jimmy Kimmel Show or because you’re a monster fan of Jim Comey or Tish James, but because the other side in each of these battles comprises a massing legal armada capable of destroying every one of those people until it comes for the next guy.

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Music producer Chris Whitehouse was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement before creating a soundtrack for the festival's advert to be "voiced" by Idris Elba, who - he was told by Mr Kenny - would also DJ at the festival alongside dance headliners Groove Armada and Whigfield.

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Elba's agent said there was, "no record of Idris doing anything for this man" and Groove Armada and Whigfield said they were never booked.

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The book was translated in the year of the Spanish Armada – when Elizabeth I was monarch – by Bishop William Morgan as part of an effort to bring scriptures to people in languages they understood.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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