transit
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For a while, I happily used the Ventra card on my phone to ride Chicago public transit.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
The transit mapping measurements also supported other previously identified characteristics of WASP-17b.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
She encouraged residents to take care of their neighbors during increased raid activity by offering rides to those afraid to drive or use public transit, delivering groceries or walking their neighbors’ children to school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Michael Krivor, a marine archaeologist on the trip, said he is currently concerned about a weather pattern traveling from east to west that could interfere with "safe transit in and out of the blasted channels".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
At Court Square, the driver snapped open the doors and hollered for a transit policeman to come inside and make an arrest.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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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
Crude futures fell as the supply fears fueled by the outage of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline eased, and oil continued to make it through the Strait of Hormuz via ship-to-ship loadings and dark transits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Most confirmed exoplanets have instead been found through transits.
From Science Daily ● 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
It transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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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
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
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
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
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
The tankers were carrying oil and liquefied natural gas when they were attacked while transiting the Strait of Gibraltar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
With this realization, priorities have been assigned to all critical circuits transiting the key facilities, based on established criteria of criticality of service continuity.
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