escort
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The royal procession travels from Buckingham Palace to the Sovereign's Entrance at Parliament, with a military escort.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
Then he announced a new phase, Project Freedom, in which U.S. warships would escort oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, only to call it off after less than two days.
From Slate • May 7, 2026
The Navy did escort ships in the Gulf in the 1980s to protect them from Iranian attack during the so-called tanker war.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
Denmark's freight giant Maersk said one of its ships had sailed through the Strait of Hormuz under US escort, adding the transit was completed "without incident".
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Any hound that got snappy with Bertha was promptly corrected, and the pack of yowling beagles provided a noisy but festive escort back to the POE.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing escort
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 26–31
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