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Energy exports from the Gulf have plunged since US-Israeli strikes on Iran from February caused Tehran to respond by choking off the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for oil and gas transit.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

But Mizrahim stayed in the transit camps longer than Ashkenazim and were sent disproportionately to economically depressed development towns, remote settlements far from the center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

When completed, the east San Fernando Valley line connect with local and regional transit services including Metro’s G Line and the Van Nuys Metrolink-Amtrak station.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

For a while, I happily used the Ventra card on my phone to ride Chicago public transit.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Chastened, they sailed on, but en route word reached them that Sumatra had fallen to the French and so they observed the transit inconclusively from the Cape of Good Hope.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

So-called assisted transits were a key factor in helping drive oil flows from the Middle East back towards pre-war levels in September.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Most confirmed exoplanets have instead been found through transits.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Mediterranean Shipping Co., or MSC, last month said it would resume some Suez Canal transits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Hormuz transits are hard to measure, mostly because ships transiting the strategic waterway turn off their GPS-like signals for security measures and to avoid Iranian attacks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

I watched two Phobos transits yesterday and sighted Deneb last night.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

It said the Kenyan Ebola patient had transited through the country for less than 24 hours and screening teams had "observed he had a normal temperature at the time of departure".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The two soldiers had transited through a third country before arriving in South Korea earlier this month, a lawmaker who visited the pair of POWs in Ukraine last year said recently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Analysts at data-platform company Kpler said Friday that no crude liquids from Saudi Arabia had transited Bab al-Mandeb since Sunday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

And despite the overall lull in the fighting, Iran fired drones at oil tankers from the United Arab Emirates, another U.S. ally, as they transited the Strait of Hormuz this month.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

The great comet of 1882 transited the sun’s disc on Sunday, September 17, of that year, the ingress taking place at 4h 50m 58s, Cape mean time.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore

There were 727,487 people who came to the UK via visas from July 2025 to June 2026, not including visitors or people transiting through the UK.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

A Singapore-flagged container ship has sunk after being struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to Singaporean authorities.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Another tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile while transiting outbound through the Strait of Hormuz, causing damage to the vessel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

It is no longer transiting to Iran, Centcom said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Pain, and seeing two bright objects transiting the darkness at which he looked; seeing something then between.

From A Gift For Terra by Fox B. Holden