navy

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Recent Examples of navy Khalilzad wore a navy suit and purple-and-red floral tie. Eric Tucker The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025 An essential in her everyday uniform, follow suit and pair yours from Madewell with a navy peacoat and paisley cotton bandana from Banana Republic. Laura Jackson, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025 The visit of the Chinese navy to Vietnam came after Hanoi unveiled a map defining its territorial claims in the South China Sea in late February and Beijing organized live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin, located off the coasts of North Vietnam and South China. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025 Pleated skirts and argyle sweater vests, all in neutral shades of navy, taupe and traditional black, completed the bourgeois wardrobe. Rhonda Richford, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for navy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navy
Noun
  • To circumvent this potential Mars landing showstopper, Zubrin says, SpaceX could instead dispatch a flotilla led by one colossal Starship accompanied by a retinue of smaller Starboats.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • On Sunday, the flotilla was in the Sunda Strait, an Indonesian waterway.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This is one of the cooler matchups of the NCAA Tournament’s second round, with the stingy Buckeyes hosting the fleet Lady Vols.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Four out of five golf courses do not have built-in GPS’s on their carts and in addition to selling to individuals, Pinned is eyeing fleets sales.
    Mike Dojc, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Minutes later, he could be seen waving from the back seat of a car as a convoy left the hospital, returning to Casa Santa Marta in Vatican City, where he is expected to continue to rest.
    Nick Duffy, NBC news, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Roadside bombs hit his convoys repeatedly and left him with traumatic brain injuries.
    Quil Lawrence, NPR, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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

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“Navy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navy. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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