strait
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But if the strait stays closed, it says each additional month would add roughly $5 a barrel to its third-quarter forecast for oil prices and $15 to its fourth-quarter estimate as inventories decline.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
A shaky ceasefire is just about holding but a deal to end the conflict and reopen the strait remains unfinished.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
If the strait stays closed, however, each additional month would add roughly $5 a barrel to the bank’s third-quarter forecast for oil prices and $15 to its fourth-quarter estimate as inventories decline.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
The strait was previously the conduit for about one-fifth of the world’s output of crude and crude-oil products.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
On the prow of that stone ship in the centre of the strait, and seemingly a part of it, a shaped and geometrical outcrop of the naked rock, stood the pueblo of Malpais.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Vocabulary lists containing strait
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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