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convoy

[kon-voi, kuhn-voi, kon-voi] / ˈkɒn vɔɪ, kənˈvɔɪ, ˈkɒn vɔɪ /
NOUN
guard, escort
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Less than 24 hours after losing the presidential election, he appeared to vanish into a convoy of four dark cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Video from the scene showed masked settlers confronting the convoy and a man wearing a French tricolour sash slumped beside a vehicle.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Video footage from the scene showed masked settlers confronting the convoy.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Oil tankers leave the strait in a convoy under U.S. military protection, usually at night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Into the Mediterranean? You’ll be safer in convoy with our fleet.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

Besides often keeping a low profile and maintaining an unremarkable wardrobe, Dangote sometimes drives himself, without the long security convoys associated with many Nigerian elites.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

According to multiple accounts, Eritrean troops have moved from the border town of Zalambessa towards central Tigray, with convoys reportedly passing through Adigrat and heading toward Edaga Hamus, a town between Adigrat and Mekelle.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Then, in safer waters, national or third-party vessels await for ship-to-ship transfers from the convoys to then sail to the buyer’s final destinations.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

The U.S. is guiding convoys through the Strait of Hormuz, and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are routing more crude through pipelines that bypass the waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

There was a lot of Cong activity and the special forces guys in Cambodia were spotting convoys.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

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

Protectively convoyed by French cops, he was taken back into Paris, smiling for the first time that day.

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

A hard-bitten nurse, busy convoying wounded soldiers, discovers even to her own surprise that she has a warm heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

She parted wire hawser after hawser, until there could have been few hawsers left on board the ships that were convoying her.

From The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight


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