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
Briefly put: the shortest route for a Russian ballistic missile to reach continental US is Greenland and the North Pole.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026
Greenland's location also puts it on the shortest route for missiles between Russia and the United States.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 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
It was like some bizarre version of a geocaching club; the minute somebody’s daughter turned eighteen, all the aunties began to scheme the shortest route from her parents’ home to the ultimate prize—her sasural.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
