armada

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He did not notice that the parking lot of the building next door, home to the Albuquerque School of Healing Arts, was full of Albuquerque city police cars, an armada of black-and-whites.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Last month, Larijani traveled to Oman to prepare for indirect nuclear talks with the U.S., as Washington amassed an armada of warships and a fleet of aircraft in the region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

President Donald Trump deployed what he described as an "armada" to the Middle East - marking the largest US military build-up in the region since the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

China is Iran’s biggest oil client with an armada of shadow fleet vessels moving oil to independent refiners at discounts of around $10 a barrel below market rates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Our 1,600 ships were the largest armada in history, and the number of our troops was even bigger than the force that landed on the beaches of Normandy in Europe.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac