as in fleet
a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management the next part of the parade was a motorcade of fire engines

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Recent Examples of motorcade Gone are the long motorcades, large security details and lavish mansions for ministers. Pamodi Waravita, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2025 Sensitive personal details President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and others smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963. Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025 The public is invited to line the motorcade route as Carter's remains are brought through his hometown. Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025 The plane is expected to arrive at Fort Moore in southwest Georgia at 2pm, and the motorcade will travel to Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains for a private funeral service scheduled to take place at 3:45pm. Kristal Dixon, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for motorcade 
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Noun
  • This marked the 21st flight for the first-stage booster, the most in the booster fleet, having previously flown on human spaceflight missions Inspiration4 and Axiom Space’s Ax-1 among others.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The law set an initial target of electrifying of half of the state fleet by Jan. 1, 2026.
    John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Photo : Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. A convoy of Urus Performante examples take part in the marque’s approximately 560-mile Esperienza Avventura drive in China.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The convoy of OCTAs set off to climb those mountains, trading pebbled roads for harder tracks in places, and some cement surfaces where runoff was an obvious issue.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The rowdy pomp and ceremony that accompanies a wedding march, meanwhile, is pointedly shown as not all that different from the film’s funeral processions — each soundtracked by the juddering snap and pop of cheap firecrackers.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Looking through the University of Pennsylvania archives, I was struck by the procession of illustrious conductors—Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, Willem Mengelberg, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Eugene Ormandy—who sought her advice and approval.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Eagles Super Bowl parade and rally will be broadcast locally and streaming on Philadelphia news stations' YouTube pages.
    Natasha Dye, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Howie Roseman was also left bloodied after Friday’s parade.
    Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2025

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“Motorcade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motorcade. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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