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navy

[nay-vee] / ˈneɪ vi /


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Three ships from the Myanmar navy are scheduled to leave Malaysia later today carrying the first 1,476 returnees.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Orizzonte Sistemi Navali signed a 3.7 billion euro agreement to supply two destroyers to the Italian navy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Coast Guard said it was coordinating its search efforts with the Mexican navy and commercial vessels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Working with navy divers, Andresen and her colleagues collected water and sediment from around the wreck.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Her hair was pulled back in a chignon, and she wore a smart tailored navy suit.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Still, the size of the rockets suggests that any mines fired with them would likely be relatively small and simple, unlike the larger ones navies are accustomed to, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Under Pillar One of the defence pact, nuclear-powered attack submarines would be built in the UK and Australia for use in their navies.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

What’s become apparent, Meade posits, is that control of the oceans through navies is no longer straightforward either.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

Yet the capacity of navies to carry out this type of operation has diminished over the years.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

China had an astronomical tradition millennia old; it invented paper and printing, rockets, clocks, silk, porcelain, and ocean-going navies.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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