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transport

[trans-pawrt, -pohrt, trans-pawrt, -pohrt] / trænsˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt, ˈtræns pɔrt, -poʊrt /






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Few things have the power to transport us to another place and time quite like food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

Workers say rising food, housing, transport and healthcare costs have eroded their purchasing power in a country where inflation is running at around eight percent.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

Miklós Seszták, who served as minister of national development for four of the ex-prime minister's 16-year rule, is accused of accepting bribes as part of a scheme involving the state transport company.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

They also incorporated a radiation transport model that calculates how light, including ultraviolet radiation, travels through the universe and interacts with surrounding matter.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

The truck was facing away from me, and I could see that it was some kind of transport wagon.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

David DeCamp, a spokesman for Crowley, said the company only transports goods between the U.S and Cuba with U.S approval.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

It has a deep convection zone that transports carbon from its interior to its surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Bereavement, we are shown, transports us, much as art can.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

It transports water across more than 700 miles with a series of reservoirs, aqueducts, pipelines and pumping plants from Northern California to Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

His rage cooled quickly, and the transports of ire gave way to the listlessness of despair.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Once the fuel is offloaded at Mariel, the tanks and containers are transported by truck to private fuel distributors, who sell it to smaller businesses and individuals across the island.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“We were immediately just transported into a place of fear,” Diana told me.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

The advanced Kirkpatrick-Baez mirror system used for the record-setting experiment was transported from Japan.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

The man, who is a health worker and has not been identified, landed at RAF Northolt before being transported to a specialist infectious diseases unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

No response, but he thought he heard a giggle and was instantly transported into the past.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

A man has died after being struck by an ambulance transporting a patient near Sunderland, Northumbria Police said.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026

Insurance for very large crude carriers, transporting two million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, can cost as much as $17 million for a sailing, shipholders and insurers said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

By transporting carbon into deep water, sinking particles can keep some of it isolated from the atmosphere for centuries or longer.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Local media reports the dispersal of the motorcade soon afterward, while the driver of the middle vehicle -- usually transporting the politician -- rolls down the window and shows that no one is on board.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

No matter how many times they’d been to Calcutta, his father was always anxious about the job of transporting the four of them such a great distance.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri


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