transit

The paper says people smugglers are using the UK as a "transit hub" for migrants hoping to reach other European countries.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The fighting spilled into August, with Iran striking six United Arab Emirates ships over the past two weeks as they tried to transit the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

And there are just four public filling stations and 10 private ones at transit agencies to serve them, according to the California Energy Commission.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Tehran signalled last week that it had agreed with Oman a route for ships to transit the strait and were finalising arrangements to jointly manage the waterway.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Caught in transit between two organisms, a gene exists momentarily as a pure chemical.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The NSR is believed to be accessible only during the time of year when the ice is melted enough to allow transits without icebreakers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

But the route is only accessible during the time of the year when the ice is melted enough to allow transits without icebreakers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

The lightened tanker transits the canal and can collect the oil on the other side, or another ship can load it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

The number of ships using this Omani route grew to a peak of 28 vessels on 25 June, Kpler's data shows, overtaking the number of transits via the Iranian route.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

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

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

Other shipping companies have transited the Arctic passage before, with Denmark's Maersk the first to do so in 2018.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Before the war, about 25% of the world’s seaborne oil trade transited through the strait.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

More than 34 million barrels of Iranian crude oil have transited the strait since the U.S. lifted its blockade on June 18, according to Kpler.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

Environmental groups warn that increasing numbers of ships transiting the shorter NSR could accelerate loss of Arctic sea ice -- already made vulnerable by rising global temperatures.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

U.S. carriers aren’t scheduled to resume services to Israel until the fall at the earliest, meaning that Americans have to find other ways to get there, often transiting through Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

It adds that the vessel "is no longer transiting to Iran".

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

However, both main contracts edged up Thursday after Iran said it had agreed a route with Oman for ships transiting the waterway and were adding the final touches to arrangements for jointly managing it.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

We observe only his transit; important to us, forgotten by him, transiting all day.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau