blockade
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Before the blockade began in mid-April, Iran exported 1.5 million to 2 million barrels of oil a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
The U.S. has disabled five ships during the blockade, Central Command says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Outright fighting has largely subsided, but Iran continues in its efforts to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, vital to global energy supplies, while the US Navy maintains its own counterblockade of Iranian ports.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Centcom estimates that its naval blockade of Iran's ports has prevented the country from exporting more than $25bn in crude oil.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
“Then why has Gowon continued to blockade us?”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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With the Strait of Hormuz largely sealed by rival U.S and Iranian blockades, Riyadh shifted its exports from Hormuz, its main energy corridor, to the Red Sea coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
On Friday, the government noted a dramatic drop in the number of blockades and meetings outside the country's lycees, where students -- most between 15 and 18 -- complete their high school education.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
When the capital came under siege by Islamist fighters, they managed to impose a partial blockade there and total blockades elsewhere including the city of Ségou.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Kirchner, one of them, wanted to engage in acts of civil disobedience, such as blockades of OpenAI’s offices, to bring more attention to the cause, according to Elmore and others in the group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
It had quickly become obvious that they wouldn’t be able to maintain over five hundred different blockades or fend off the massive influx of gunters.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Just one percent of France's 3,700 high schools for 15 to 18-year-olds called lycees were blockaded, the education ministry said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
On Tuesday, more than 260,000 students, parents and teachers took to the streets as protesters blockaded hundreds of high schools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
At least 30 universities have also reportedly been blockaded, including campuses in Rennes and Paris.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
According to the AFP news agency, four high schools were reportedly blockaded in the southern regions of Alpes-Maritimes and Var.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The 101st Long Range Air Regiment, as well as bombing, helped bring supplies by air to the blockaded and starving city of Leningrad.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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ICE reported a half-dozen arrests outside the facility after masked agents used force against protestors who they said were blockading the entrances to the facility.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
Six weeks into the conflict, the U.S. responded by blockading shipments from all Iranian ports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Elsewhere, police dismantled a makeshift barrier erected by protesters blockading western Galway docks.
From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026
"I don't understand how blockading the strait is going to somehow push the Iranians into opening it," Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN on Sunday.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
The British believed that by blockading German shipping lanes and seaports, they could starve Germany into submission.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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