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[root, rout] / rut, raʊt /




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An alternative Arctic route, the Northwest Passage that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Canadian Arctic, is less passable because it is dominated by narrow waterways where ice gets bunched up.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Her favourite thing about the route in Spain, Mitchell added, is all the people she met along the way.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Buying the stake in Liverpool gives the 62-year-old a potential route to eventually take over at Anfield despite reports he will be a 'silent partner'.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

It sits along the Selma-to-Montgomery route, the ground the 1965 voting rights march crossed on its way to the Capitol.

From Slate Aug. 14, 2026

The children thought it all a great game; by turns they pretended they were moles in dark tunnels, or explorers charting an unmapped jungle, or Postal Tygers delivering the mail along an unfamiliar route.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Meanwhile, high oil prices and attacks by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea have made the traditional routes costlier and more dangerous.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Coface estimates 3.5% of trade among East Asia, Europe and North America will be able to use Arctic routes within the next five years, representing $64 billion in goods.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Heisenberg: Munoz is arguably the most exciting Crystal Palace FPL asset because of the sheer number of routes to points.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

The findings revealed two major routes by which the glymphatic system removes particles from the brain, including amyloid beta proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease -- and the speeds of those routes are dramatically different.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

This was one of the main shipping routes between the eastern and western Mediterranean, and it was also an extremely dangerous body of water, filled with shoals, sandbars, and suddenly shifting currents.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

His disappearance caused a panic among the defenders and they were routed.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

It was that public safety had to be routed through either federal or state policing for the claim to become legible.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Tech firms were once again in the crosshairs, with South Korea's Kospi extending a painful selloff as chip titan SK hynix continued to be routed amid growing fears about the AI boom.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

Aviation Minister JoBeth Coleby-Davis told reporters a plane had earlier routed back to Nassau when the pilot reported an issue.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

A similar cavalry charge of 26 horsemen routed the best troops of Emperor Manco himself, as he was besieging the Spaniards in Cuzco.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Nvidia also announced Nemo Switchyard, what it calls an “open-source model routing library”—essentially a tool that can automatically select models for supporting different AI agent tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

The buzz: Unbeaten Belgium didn’t score a goal of its own until routing New Zealand 5-1 in its group-play finale.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Markets have renewed appreciation for the value of alternative routing and storage, and governments are now more willing to invest in and prioritize chokepoint security.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

Questions over potential transit tolls also remain partly unresolved, adding to uncertainty around routing decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

That same night, the Midland Lee Rebels finished the season by routing the Cooper Cougars, and the Midland High Bulldogs did likewise by beating the Abilene High Eagles.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger




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