strait
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About 20% of the world’s oil transited the strait before the war started.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The decisive question is how long Iran's leaders can preserve Hormuz as leverage without provoking an all-out war, renewed unrest or the construction of alternative routes that make the strait matter less.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Flows through the strait have fallen to just 5.1 million barrels of crude a day, down from 12.5 million barrels a day earlier this month, analysts at J.P.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Iran began attacking ships using the Oman corridor in early July, setting off an extended series of tit-for-tat attacks that collapsed the deal to pause the fighting and all but closed the strait to traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Start of the Battle Once it sailed out of the strait, Mark Antony’s fleet held a tight formation facing Octavian’s fleet of 400 ships.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
"To guarantee freedom of navigation, one had to start by guaranteeing freedom of passage through the straits," Domergue said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
If you’re not in dire straits financially, keep full ownership of your home.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Sleuths are able to track the shipments, however, by following occasional pings from the shadow ships’ transponders, which are sometimes turned on for safety to navigate narrow straits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The airlines emphasized Spirit’s dire financial straits, but the judge found that that distress didn’t meet a rigorous “failing firm” threshold that would’ve triggered friendlier antitrust treatment.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
Radio calls my teammate Stuart Hutchison had been monitoring from Rob Hall on the South Summit made clear that our leader was in desperate straits and that Doug Hansen was dead.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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