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Recent Examples of armada
Zero tankers transited the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday, a narrow channel just off Iran’s southern coast that’s normally packed with an armada of 60 or more ships carrying 20% of the world’s oil.
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Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
The Navy has a powerful armada on station in the widening Mideast conflict.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
Trump has referred to aircraft carriers and their accompanying destroyers as armadas and flotillas.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2026
Back then, America feared an armada of Soviet bombers laden with A-bombs barreling over the horizon, dodging our few anti-aircraft batteries, and dropping their deadly payloads on undefended American cities.
—Barry Scott Zellen, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2026
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Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
The Navy has a powerful armada on station in the widening Mideast conflict.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
Trump has referred to aircraft carriers and their accompanying destroyers as armadas and flotillas.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2026
Back then, America feared an armada of Soviet bombers laden with A-bombs barreling over the horizon, dodging our few anti-aircraft batteries, and dropping their deadly payloads on undefended American cities.
—Barry Scott Zellen, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for armada
Noun
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The Bush, commissioned in 2009, is the newest of 10 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers in the US fleet.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
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Safety fears could slow China’s robotaxi rollout China’s robotaxi fleet may almost triple this year compared to 2025, though customer resistance could hinder its rollout, analysts said.—
Semafor Events,
semafor.com,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Twenty-one seconds later, a convoy of fire trucks left the station to respond to an emergency where another plane reported an odor in the cabin the other side of the airport.—
Aaron Cooper,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
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The team in another truck, identified as Truck 1, moved to the front of the convoy of responders to wait at the taxiway intersection.—
Doha Madani,
NBC news,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Armada.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armada. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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