armada
noun
, -ˈmā- also -ˈma-
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caravan, cavalcade, fleet, line, motorcade, train
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By secretly putting the tardigrades on board, Spivack also evaded an armada of other government agencies and policies in both the US and Israel. — Loren Grush, The Verge, "Why stowaway creatures on the Moon confound international space law," 16 Aug. 2019 As bridge dedication ceremonies got under way, an armada of Navy destroyers, yachts and power boats formed a huge oval in parade beneath the bridge. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "San Diego-Coronado bridge dedicated 50 years ago," 2 Aug. 2019 On June 6, 1944, an armada of 150,000 Allied soldiers landed on five beaches in Normandy, France. — Brian Pascus, CBS News, "What is D-Day? Remembering the storied 1944 invasion of Normandy," 6 June 2019 The morning of the swim, an armada of boats congregated alongside a string of pennant flags hung across the channel — the pony swim lane. — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, "Following in the Wake of a Storybook Pony," 8 July 2019 In July of 1776, the British, infuriated by their humiliation in New England, deployed the largest armada in military history. — Time, "The Maryland 400 Lost a Battle But Helped Win a War. On the 4th of July, We Should Remember Their Sacrifice," 4 July 2019 By then, an armada of 4,000 ships was off the Normandy coast, and landing craft were ferrying tanks, infantry units and combat engineers toward the shore. — Ron Grossman, Houston Chronicle, "IN THEIR OWN WORDS," 9 June 2019 On the night before the D-Day landings on June 6th, 1944, an aerial armada set out from England for Normandy. — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, "The Return of 'That’s All, Brother': The Plane That Led the D-Day Invasion," 4 June 2019 That could have huge implications for the fortunes of companies like Tesla, whose CEO Elon Musk said would transform its existing fleet of cars into a 1 million-strong robo-taxi armada by 2020—something few analysts believe is feasible. — Christopher Mims, WSJ, "Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones," 15 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'armada.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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