flotilla
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The Sun leads with reports of a "dinghy flotilla in Channel", writing that the boats carried "up to 1,000 migrants headed for Britain".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
I instead recall coasting past a flotilla of icebergs in Alaska’s Glacier Bay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The warning was issued in a December 2025 report by New Zealand's Defence Force and Ministry of Foreign Affairs while they were monitoring a People's Liberation Army navy flotilla in the Philippine Sea.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
There was no warning from the Iranian navy to the ships on radio or telling them to turn back, according to the seafarers in the flotilla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Beyond the arc of the harbor, a flotilla of Red Navy ships patrolled the shore—a sash of crimson in the deep blue sea.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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The country is not facing flotillas of small boats arriving from the North Sea or the Baltic.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
This battle between Team USA and Europe at Bethpage Black is also a proxy war between rival flotillas of wonks and analysts who advise both teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2025
A joint command center with officials from all four parties will be set up immediately in Istanbul to monitor every movement of the flotillas.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2022
One-third of Vietnam’s 96 million people live along the serpentine coastline, where humble flotillas of identical blue-and-red boats bob in ramshackle harbors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
Soon, however, they sighted the British flotillas bearing down on them from the north-east.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by James Edward Parrott
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