convoy
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But a convoy operation is impractical with the blockade in full force, U.S. officials say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Now is the time to ‘end the economic war on Cuba,’ say Cuban Americans for Cuba, an emerging collective that joined the recent convoy to Havana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Here, though, it suffered a second ambush before eventually being able to reunite with the convoy.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
"Principessa, principessa," chanted some of the children in the crowd, as a big black BMW drew up in a convoy of police vehicles.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
A convoy of three-ton lorries went by, heading south, out of town.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
The trucking convoys are the latest example of ways the global economy has shown surprising resilience in the face of war-related shocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
RTÉ said about 500 forecourts had run out of petrol and diesel due to the protests, involving slow-moving convoys made up of vehicles including tractors.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
A World War Two veteran who served in the Arctic convoys and played a role in D-Day has died aged 100.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
It would require U.S.-protected convoys to unblock the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
The two convoys were going in opposite directions, and Bors was alone.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were conveyed and convoyed.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
We convoyed over in shifts, along with other companies from their individual base camps around Mosul.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2018
We were 142 people that convoyed together, at minimum one mission a day/night.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 1, 2015
With their hockey sticks inverted like spears, they reached over the boards, jousted the police away and convoyed Eagleson across the ice to the sanctuary of the Canadian bench.
From Time Magazine Archive
On November 17, 1926, when White was still settling into the new job, two new inmates were convoyed up the prison’s horseshoe driveway by U.S. marshals.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
“If something didn’t send an alarm signal that we needed to have serious assets or protection and convoying of our vessels in that area then I want to know why not.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2019
By the time I reached San Clemente, there were four of us convoying at about 20 mph on the 5 to Oceanside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
Dr Labrosse said the main application would be for convoying, where a series of automated vehicles are led by a human driver or a smarter robot at the front.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2015
After 15 years of private-eying, he finds himself back on the Continent convoying a fugitive millionaire industrialist from Brittany to Liechtenstein.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here they dropped the conversation, for a Swedish division came up convoying wagons, small nobles, and a "requisition."
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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