shortest route
Example Sentences
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The shortest route for a ballistic missile to reach the U.S. from Russia is over Greenland.
From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026
True high-speed rail requires hundreds of miles of “sealed corridor” free of grade-level crossings, inaccessible to trespassers who often are trying to get from A to B by the shortest route.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
The shortest route for Russian nuclear missiles to reach the US runs through Greenland, and Pituffik plays a crucial role in US missile defence.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025
To measure longer distances, you can draw a thread around a globe, such that the shortest route is a curve—after all, Earth is not flat.
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2023
It was like some bizarre version of a geocaching club; the minute somebody’s daughter turned eighteen, all the aunties began to scheme the shortest route from her parents’ home to the ultimate prize—her sasural.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
