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transit

[tran-zit, -sit] / ˈtræn zɪt, -sɪt /


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“The vessel and crew are all reported as safe. Authorities are investigating. Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO,” it said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

In light of ongoing challenges, Genevieve Giuliano, a professor in USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, said that other solutions could emerge to help reduce traffic on the road and demand on public transit.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

The “back-and-forth with respect to disruptions and attacks” creates more uncertainty and concern and less willingness to transit, he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday that two oil tankers attempting to transit the strait with US support turned back after one of them caught fire.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Loved the intersecting lines of transit routes on the map, the crisp procession of times on the schedule.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

In addition, Iran and Oman reportedly are trying to reach an agreement to resume transits through the strait.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 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

Months of uninterrupted darkness made it possible to observe the planets' unusually long transits, each lasting more than 11 hours, without interruption.

From Science Daily Jun. 27, 2026

One morning when Ishmael was eight years old a pair of surveyors had showed up with their transits and alidades and knotted red flagging everywhere.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

About 20% of the world’s oil transited the waterway before the Iran war began.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

Qatar's foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari said it held Iran "fully responsible" for an apparent targeted attack on a vessel called Al-Rekayyat as it transited near the Strait.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Before the war began, Kpler data showed that more than 100 vessels carrying oil and other goods transited through the waterway per day.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 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 Burgoyne, Thomas H.

Left unsaid was whether Tehran is prepared to permanently drop its demand that it should be able to collect tolls from transiting commercial vessels and if those negotiations would lead to a fully reopened waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

"Between 2018 and 2023, apparently there was a resurface of major trafficking and transiting in Liberia. Over the last one-and-a-half years, we've been surveilling them and this is the result of that operation," said Coleman.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

This has left the Strait of Hormuz “deserted, with no ships observed transiting the waterway on Tuesday,” they say.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

A renewed US blockade on Iranian ports was imposed on Tuesday evening, which stops vessels from transiting to and from Iranian ports and coastal areas.

From BBC Jul. 15, 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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