route
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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
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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
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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
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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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