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strait

[streyt] / streɪt /


NOUN
water channel
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Even if the strait reopens this month, the International Energy Agency expects the oil market to be short of barrels until the fourth quarter of this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 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

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

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

When the strait was at last flooded around 10,000 years ago, Tasmanians and mainland Australians became cut off from each other because neither group possessed watercraft capable of negotiating Bass Strait.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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