transit
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One is called transit, when the planet goes in front of the host star.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
It’s operated by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, made up of members from transit authorities in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The recent resumption of oil flowing through the Saudi bypass pipeline, followed by accelerating loadings at the port of Yanbu to transit the Red Sea, will unlock more exports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
All the recent L.A. mayors I’ve known had their faults and failures, whether the task was filling potholes, building out transit or addressing the high cost of housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
I'll have to wait for another Phobos transit to get my longitude, and I'll need to wait for nightfall to sight Deneb for my latitude.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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
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
I watched two Phobos transits yesterday and sighted Deneb last night.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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
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
In addition, Axios reported that around 40 ships transited the strait over the weekend, while The New York Times reported U.S. diplomats would return to the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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
We hear of him but once again until he, the Sun-God, or Savior, is thirty years old, or has transited thirty degrees of space.
From The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 by Thomas H. Burgoyne
It is no longer transiting to Iran, Centcom said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He was paid three times his monthly salary for the days transiting in the conflict zone, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
Each transiting ship requiers about 200 million liters of water, which is then discharged into the sea.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Every nation bears responsibility for the people and goods transiting its borders.
From National Strategy for Combating Terrorism February 2003 by United States. Executive Office of the President
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