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 Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford The war games and space armadas of Ender’s Game struggled to appeal to 2013’s teens as much as the novel did in 1985, and the movie barely recouped its hefty budget. Rory Doherty, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024 Yet, even with a veritable armada of people and tech, the problem persists. Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024 The last thing the State Department needs is another armada of consultants descending on Foggy Bottom with fancy slide decks full of new ideas about how the department should look. William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2020 The development of this corridor would also allow China to circumvent the Strait of Malacca in the face of the formidable armada that the United States and its allies are building. Maria Fantappie, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2023 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 21 Feb. 2025.

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