entrepot
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The Strait of Hormuz has been a critical trading entrepôt for centuries, a passageway between the Persian and Oman gulfs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
In time, America became such an entrepôt among these continents that an eighteenth-century visitor, lending this show its title and theme, called Mexico City ‘the archive of the world.’
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
Los Angeles is also a major metropolitan entrepôt, and that means a steady supply of new visitors, people who want to experience a mostly invisible business — filmmaking — in a tangible way.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022
Sure, New Orleans sits near the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River and is an important entrepôt and site for export of raw materials, agricultural commodities chemicals, and petroleum products.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017
They are then carried by land, a distance of about thirty-eight miles to Kahilnitzkaia, where they are embarked on the Don, and conveyed to Rostof, their general entrepôt.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
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