strategic
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The island is used by the Revolutionary Guards to monitor vessel traffic and sits in a strategic position overlooking the waterway, one of the world’s most important shipping routes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
They maintain lookout towers, water stations and strategic corridors of cleared land among the pines, typically 55 yards wide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Axios also said the deal would more than double US oil reserves at a time when the US strategic petroleum reserve is at a 40-year low.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
China doesn’t publish the size of its strategic oil reserves or reveal its oil consumption, forcing analysts to calculate “apparent demand” by adding up official refinery throughput and net imports of refined oil products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
“You can, so long as your safety is a strategic necessity.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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