shortest route
Example Sentences
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The shortest route for Russian surface-launched ballistic missiles to North America is over the Arctic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
The shortest route for a ballistic missile to reach the U.S. from Russia is over Greenland.
From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026
"If Russia were to send missiles towards the US, the shortest route for nuclear weapons would be via the North Pole and Greenland," said Marc Jacobsen, an associate professor at the Royal Danish Defence College.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 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
The shortest route to the staff room was the quad, but I took the longer way, via the Old Gym.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
