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strait

[streyt] / streɪt /


NOUN
water channel
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Instead, with the strait chokehold well into its fourth month and clashes in the war continuing, the Brent crude benchmark is below $100 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The post doesn’t specify the exact volumes that have gotten out, but says more than 200 commercial ships have transited the strait.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

He said the operation had secured the passage of more than 100 million barrels of oil through the strait since it began.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

“This was the worst thing we could come up with. We kind of assumed it was not possible, that the strait was kind of too big to fail,” Halff said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

When Sir Francis Drake first navigated through this perilous strait in 1578, it took him sixteen days and cost him four of his ships.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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