armada
Example Sentences
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The US assembled a massive armada and achieved its goal without losing a single American life.
From BBC
Meanwhile, the U.S. aircraft carrier and its supporting armada, which had mobilized off Venezuela’s shore before the operation, remain deployed, and on high alert.
From Slate
After fighting for four years and sacrificing 400,000 lives during World War II, Washington captured vital bastions at both ends of the vast Eurasian land mass and spent the next 40 years of the Cold War ensuring its control of that strategic continent with circles of steel — military alliances like NATO, hundreds of overseas military bases, powerful naval fleets and a massive armada of nuclear-armed aircraft and missiles.
From Salon
It prefers companies benefiting from a stronger ringgit as well as exposure to data centers and energy–naming Malayan Banking, Tenaga Nasional and Bumi Armada as among its top picks.
“We have a massive armada formed, the biggest we’ve ever had, and by far the biggest we’ve ever said in South America,” he said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
