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convoy

[kon-voi, kuhn-voi, kon-voi] / ˈkɒn vɔɪ, kənˈvɔɪ, ˈkɒn vɔɪ /
NOUN
guard, escort
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The state-owned Belarusian news agency Belta reported a bus convoy of Oleshky residents had left Gomel airport and was heading towards the Ukrainian border.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

Thousands of people lined highways, toll plazas and city streets waving Venezuelan flags and chanting "Liberty!" as a beaming Machado entered the capital in a convoy of cars and motorbikes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 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

“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

Ukraine's military general staff urged people not to trust unverified reports or spread rumours about "the routes, time and place of the movement of people and humanitarian convoys".

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Generally speaking, however, tanker convoys, escorted by air and sea by the U.S. military, do the perilous transit through the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

He suggested Ukraine's main objective was not only to strike the assets "important to Russia's image of grand power", but to disrupt key logistical convoys, command posts, and communication towers.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

Only the military convoys and ambulances were able to find a way through, honking their horns at us, waving us all aside.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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

Convoyed by 24 Mexican soldiers and police, the boxcars last month reached the Mexican border, where they were turned over to two Texas rangers, who convoyed them to Manhattan.

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

Malta, bombed and isolated, faced starvation, and between January and August 1942 British warships convoying merchantmen made six attempts to go to her succor, punched through four battered convoys.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the first day of September, news reached Major Noguera that the enemy were convoying a stock of supplies in the neighborhood where he was stationed.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson


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