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[fleet] / flit /




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But Zelensky told the Financial Times that around half of Ukraine's fleet was spending lengthy maintenance periods in Europe.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

It has 21 such models in its fleet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In return, Constellation will supply Amazon with up to 690 megawatts of power long term from across its fleet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The MS Centre Dorset runs a fleet of five minibuses, helping users across the county to get to its base in West Parley.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

It was the largest invasion fleet the world had ever known, made up of at least thirty thousand soldiers and approximately two hundred ships.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

“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

Thus the proportions discovered by Lysippus were peculiarly appropriate for the lighter, fleeter gods, as Apollo and Hermes.

From Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

Utah also plays at the sixth-slowest pace in the league, in part because Gobert is a dominant half-court defender who isn’t the fleetest of foot end to end.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2020

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 at once sent half a dozen of his fleetest men after us.

From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams

"This will be very challenging for households and companies that drive a lot of miles, from commuters, haulage and delivery firms, businesses with large fleets all the way through to sole traders," he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Thousands of Bombardier aircraft currently operate in US airlines' domestic fleets.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Mom-and-pop businesses, such as small trucking fleets or family farms, are hit harder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Exactly how much diesel those trucks are already displacing depends on how far they are driven, and whether they augment or replace existing vehicle fleets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Hence when the latter faction gained the upper hand in a power struggle, it stopped sending fleets, eventually dismantled the shipyards, and forbade oceangoing shipping.

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

And now, as they drove Southward, day and night, Through storm and calm, the shores that fleeted by Grew wilder, grander, with his growing soul, And pregnant with the approaching mystery.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes

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

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

It was a fleeting spell at Parkhead that yielded three goals for the former England striker in just eight appearances.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

In a city where everything can feel fleeting, Kiko Kostadinov has created something that asks you to linger long enough for a memory to form — and perhaps, eventually, become part of the next collection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Yet any tarnish to the U.S.’s standing could be fleeting.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 6, 2026

Given the phrase’s innate poeticism, it’s often used by scholars, authors, casanovas and perhaps overly didactic filmmakers to convey the fleeting intensity of life’s most burning joys.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

For the fragrance that came to each was like a memory of dewy mornings of unshadowed sun in some land of which the fair world in Spring is itself but a fleeting memory.

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




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