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strait

[streyt] / streɪt /


NOUN
water channel
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He said the operation had secured the passage of more than 100 million barrels of oil through the strait since it began.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Even if the strait reopens this month, the International Energy Agency expects the oil market to be short of barrels until the fourth quarter of this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Their most severe scenario was the current Hormuz reality, whereby the strait, the former conduit of about a fifth of the world’s crude and crude products, essentially closed.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Apaches have been flying low over the strait for maritime patrols and precision strikes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

How could two such different cultural universes maintain themselves across a calm strait only 10 miles wide and routinely traversed by canoes?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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