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[root, raut] / rut, raʊt /




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New York immediately pounced, tallying eight runs after Gray exited en route to a 9-2 win that ended Boston’s season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Saudi East-West pipeline had been a key alternative route for oil shipments from the kingdom while Hormuz was choked off.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Instead, the strongest emission appears along the route traveled by the jet.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

LA28’s route promises to pass through iconic cities and landmarks, but Wasserman is most keen on carrying the torch through small towns, per advice he received from Payne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Then Mudd explained the route to the next stop on their underground rebel railroad.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

Working with Tony Villani, the founder of XPE Sports, Kelce focused on “game-speed drills” to maximize his pace when he’s running actual routes, not just reeling off sprints in shorts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

"These audits must identify broken streetlights, overgrown public spaces, abandoned buildings, unsafe transport routes and facilities, poorly secured parks, and other conditions that place women at risk."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Sustained flows through both routes could lift Saudi exports above levels seen before the pipeline attack and add more crude back to the market, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Jet-fuel prices are the highest they’ve been since the start of the U.S.-Iran war, leading airlines to eliminate some flight routes from their schedules to cut costs.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

The path led to the waterfall door, and there were no other routes around it.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

The Rams took a similar tact last season, when they traveled from Baltimore to London the day before the game and then routed the Jacksonville Jaguars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Large amounts of crypto were being routed from OKX to a group of anonymous wallets, investigators found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Players slept at a hotel, got up the next day and routed the Jacksonville Jaguars, 35-7.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Banque Misr’s United Arab Emirates branch accessed U.S. correspondent accounts and routed as much as $1.8 billion for companies that were potentially part of Iranian shadow-banking networks, officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

After a long and bloody encounter in which something like 50,000 casualties were incurred, the Union troops routed the Confederates—but then squandered the best opportunity they’d yet had to smash General Lee’s army decisively.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Over the last several years, work crews there have been restoring natural floodplains along rivers and creeks, building recharge basins, and routing floodwater to farm fields where it can soak into the land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Networking revenue surged 75% to $2.89 billion, including a 270% rise in routing revenue to $788 million and a 112% increase in data center networking revenue to $382 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The attack affected the communication operations of the fire and police departments, including the routing of 911 calls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

That’s leading to the rise of model routing — a technique that directs queries to the most suitable AI model.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

I have thrown this routing in as a sop and shall not make a habit of it.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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