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 The joy of being in the friendliest of armadas certainly was infectious. Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 Yet the size of the Kremlin’s ICBM armada is many times larger, say the worldwide nuclear weapons monitors at the Federation of American Scientists. Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025 The armada includes a basket on wheels that can collect rebounds and pass balls to players, other robots that can stand in as defenders and a collection of Spot robots from Boston Dynamics. Ina Fried, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025 Warmer than 41 can turn all that food into an armada of foodborne illness bacteria boats. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for armada
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Noun
  • However, Waymo’s business model necessitates owning its vehicles and investing heavily in retrofitting and fleet management, resulting in high operational costs.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • The other option would be to change over the entire fleet, including the 222 vehicles that cannot be easily changed.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Instead of using soldiers to run resupply convoys, the soldiers can be allocated towards more direct combat roles.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • On February 8, 2022, a convoy of vehicles descended on Wellington, inspired by the Canadian trucker protest that was then paralyzing Ottawa.
    Rachel Morris, New Yorker, 5 June 2025

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“Armada.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armada. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.

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