blockade

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Even so, Sybiha said Ukraine’s forceful breaking of the blockade held a strategy lesson for the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Iran's virtual blockade of Hormuz has sent oil and gas prices soaring and pushed countries around the world to enact measures to contain the fallout.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

“A U.S. blockade on oil shipments to Cuba has plunged the island into its worst energy crisis in modern history,” my colleague Kate Linthicum reported from Havana.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Any such operation, if ordered, would risk significant casualties, considering that Iran relies on drones, missiles and small speedboats to strike vessels that attempt to defy its blockade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Troops on land stood by to engage Octavian’s army once Mark Antony’s ships broke through the blockade.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby