transit
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About 7% of global energy supplies and around 12% to 15% of all global shipping transit the strait.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
The move to incentivize the use of public transit could broaden the appeal of Mountain View-based Waymo, which has been offering rides to the public in San Francisco since 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
For each connected trip on public transit, riders will earn $2.85 in Waymo Cash, which is the cost of transit fare in San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Some vessels urgently needing to transit on a specific date submit aggressive bids and that is what accounted for the recent sums, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Bratton turned the transit police into an organization focused on the smallest infractions, on the details of life underground.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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As the conflict between the U.S. and Iran escalated this year, the canal registered an increase in transits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
We also told the shipping industry that we were dropping from 36 transits per day to 34 on September 4th and then to 32 on September 15th.
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
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In the interview, Trump said that the largest volume of oil since the war began had transited the strait over the weekend, at more than 20 million barrels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 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
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
At the time of the appearance of the great comet of 1843, it was doubtful whether the comet had transited the sun’s disc.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
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
The Panama Canal will restrict the number of vessels transiting the crucial waterway from Friday for the second time ever due to drought caused by the El Nino climate phenomenon.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 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
Part of the problem is that the customs office in the Maldives has limited staff, and goods transiting through the country undergo minimal checks, the person said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
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