as in fleet
a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management an armada of ships sailing up the coast

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Recent Examples of armada Warmer than 41 can turn all that food into an armada of foodborne illness bacteria boats. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025 New bombers rolled off the city’s assembly lines, and new armadas floated out of its shipyards, toward the Pacific front. Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2025 As the microlight receded west into the haze, the birds chasing behind, an armada of cars and camper vans sped off in pursuit. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 Singapore’s Banyan Group, which opened an armada of luxury hotels all over the mainland in the last two years (including Banyan Tree Dongguan Songshan Lake and Banyan Tree Suzhou Shishan), is relying on China’s cultural and natural cache to bring international tourism roaring back. Chadner Navarro, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for armada
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Noun
  • While Turkey has the third largest F-16 fleet in the world, Israel has the second.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Trump has said the plane would be used solely by the Department of Defense during the transition to a new fleet of presidential aircraft and would later be donated to his presidential library.
    Nik Popli, Time, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Armed convoys are rumbling toward Pakistan’s border with India.
    Salman Masood, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Videos showed that the convoy of marked ambulances were driving with headlights and flashing emergency lights on.
    Kareem Khadder, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Armada.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armada. Accessed 18 May. 2025.

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