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Recent Examples of navy
This Quince skirt has the same silhouette as Paltrow’s, but comes in easy-to-match white, black, navy, and pinstripes.
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Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
There are around 8 grams of protein in half a cup of cooked kidney, navy, cannellini or black beans.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 18 May 2026
And the country’s colonial legacy and long seafaring history meant that, even at the beginning of the 21st century, its navy was uniquely able to take on such a role.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
Its constant presence has long irked leaders in China, whose own navy has undergone rapid modernization and is now the largest in the world.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 16 May 2026
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Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
There are around 8 grams of protein in half a cup of cooked kidney, navy, cannellini or black beans.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 18 May 2026
And the country’s colonial legacy and long seafaring history meant that, even at the beginning of the 21st century, its navy was uniquely able to take on such a role.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
Its constant presence has long irked leaders in China, whose own navy has undergone rapid modernization and is now the largest in the world.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 16 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for navy
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The notion advanced by France and Britain, in particular, that a European flotilla should exercise a role only when the shooting is definitively over, is futile.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
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The flotilla’s latest attempt to reach Gaza comes less than a year after Israeli authorities foiled a previous effort by the group.—
Melanie Lidman,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026
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The fiscal year 2027 update, released May 12, calls for a fleet of 450 vessels by 2031, consisting of 299 warships, 68 auxiliary ships, and 83 unmanned robotic vessels.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
15 May 2026
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In a statement, Lee Gordon, a spokesperson for Brunswick Corporation, which owns Freedom Boat Club, where the boat was docked, confirmed to PEOPLE that the vessel was part of its fleet.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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Though our traveling party was relatively large with a dozen guests and several guides, the experience felt intimate, since we were divided up into a convoy of Land Rovers.—
Paul Brady,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026
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When their convoy is brutally ambushed, they are left handcuffed together and, on the run, forcing her to put her life in his hands.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2026
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Yellow split peas, horse gram, chickpeas, brown lentils and moth beans — Iyer assembles an armada of more than 15 different types of legumes for the Legume Curries chapter.—
Scott Hocker,
TheWeek,
11 May 2026
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Following the United States’ launch of Operation Epic Fury late last month, Iran deployed its own armada of light-weight, low-cost attack drones.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Navy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navy. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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