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 air armada would also need dedicated fighter aircraft like the F-35, and electronic-warfare jets as well. James Stavridis, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024 Instead, Soviet intelligence picked up evidence that U.S. officials were preparing reporters to join an armada that would strike Cuba and that the United States had raised the alert status of its strategic weapons. Timothy Naftali, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2022 Eventually, Musk wants to build an armada of 1,000 ships to set up a colony on the Red Planet, which will require no less than 10 launches per day to assemble and fuel the fleet. David Szondy, New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024 In the 1550s in Malta, a waterspout plowed through the harbor of Valletta, reportedly destroying an armada of warships and killing hundreds of people. Alec Luhn, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for armada 

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“Armada.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armada. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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