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transit

[tran-zit, -sit] / ˈtræn zɪt, -sɪt /


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I am now carrying a gorgeous straw tote and wearing linen that has somehow survived public transit without acquiring a wrinkle.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

The Moroccans may also have thought they could exploit Europe’s Schengen policy of easy cross-border transit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Metro has completed 11 of its 28 projects slated ahead of the Olympics to ease traffic and beef up transit.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

The “back-and-forth with respect to disruptions and attacks” creates more uncertainty and concern and less willingness to transit, he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Necessity being the mother of invention, black people created their own transit system, an informal network of bus routes, controlled by private associations operating entirely outside the law.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

The number of transits through Hormuz fell to 10 on Monday, according to ship-tracking firm Kpler.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

The number of ships using this Omani route grew to a peak of 28 vessels on 25 June, Kpler's data shows, overtaking the number of transits via the Iranian route.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

According to the researchers, these are the longest continuous planetary transits ever fully observed from the ground.

From Science Daily Jun. 27, 2026

Maritime intelligence company Windward said that transits through the strait stood at 40 on Friday, including 12 inbound passages.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

She tracked the regulars on their daily transits through the park, assembling notes and speculations like the compilers of her almanacs.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

In peacetime, about a fifth of the world’s supply of crude and crude products transited through Hormuz.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Before the war, about 25% of the world’s seaborne oil trade transited through the strait.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

Qatar's foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari said it held Iran "fully responsible" for an apparent targeted attack on a vessel called Al-Rekayyat as it transited near the Strait.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

The IMO said Friday that a total of 15 vessels transited this morning, with 11 of them using the southern corridor backed by the IMO and with assistance from the U.S. and Oman.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

She has transited the Atlantic to attend our Congress, but can only be present at this evening's Inauguratory, as she must be in New York again before sundown to-morrow.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various

Talks have been complicated by Iran’s demand to collect tolls from ships transiting the strait.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

"Between 2018 and 2023, apparently there was a resurface of major trafficking and transiting in Liberia. Over the last one-and-a-half years, we've been surveilling them and this is the result of that operation," said Coleman.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

This has left the Strait of Hormuz “deserted, with no ships observed transiting the waterway on Tuesday,” they say.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

A renewed US blockade on Iranian ports was imposed on Tuesday evening, which stops vessels from transiting to and from Iranian ports and coastal areas.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

We observe only his transit; important to us, forgotten by him, transiting all day.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David




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