transit

A transit occurs when a planet passes in front of its star and causes a small temporary drop in the starlight seen from Earth.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Each day, roughly 300 ships transit the waterway, which connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The waterway is a crucial route for global energy transit.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

You can watch your future grocery bill in transit: The stage of the producer-price index furthest from your cart rose 3.2% in May, the biggest jump since 2009.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

As well as his stellar cataloguing, Halley had observed a transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun while he was in St Helena.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

In 2023, El Nino forced a reduction in daily transits from 38 to 22 due to the dramatic reduction in reservoir levels.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Espino de Marotta: We have 10 daily transits through the canal’s biggest locks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

She tracked the regulars on their daily transits through the park, assembling notes and speculations like the compilers of her almanacs.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

On Tuesday, for example, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said 17 million barrels of crude oil transited Hormuz Monday, which is not far off the 20 million barrels daily average before the disruption began in March.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

The rest transited via unidentified routes or the traditional IMO corridor.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Ship trackers say roughly a third of the vessels that have transited the strait during August have used the Iranian-administered route along the northern reaches of the waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

She has transited the Atlantic to attend our Congress, but can only be present at this evening's Inauguratory, as she must be in New York again before sundown to-morrow.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various

One way crude and a certain amount of crude products are leaving the Persian Gulf and transiting Hormuz is through ship-to-ship transfers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 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

The Saudi national shipping company, Bahri, confirmed on Wednesday that its vessel Sidr was "involved in a security incident while transiting the Strait of Hormuz".

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

It only needs to persuade shipowners, captains and insurers that the risk of encountering a mine while transiting the strait is too high to make the trip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

We will expand our global capability for detecting illicit materials, weapons, and personnel transiting abroad or heading for the United States or U.S. interests overseas.

From National Strategy for Combating Terrorism September 2006 by National Security Council (U.S.)