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transport

[trans-pawrt, -pohrt, trans-pawrt, -pohrt] / trænsˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt, ˈtræns pɔrt, -poʊrt /






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Two people died, and one remains missing in the ocean after a medical transport helicopter flying from Santa Catalina Island to the mainland went down in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

That’s before income, health insurance, Social Security contributions, transport, etc.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The River Rhine reached record lows in places this summer, affecting shipping navigation routes and increasing transport costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Singapore’s public transport council announced an overall fare increase of 7% effective Dec. 26, which the analyst says reflects the recent sharp rise in energy costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The transport convoy was scheduled for noon, so we made our way into the trees.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

MacAskill's haulage firm, N D MacAskill & Son, transports livestock around Inverness, Dingwall and Stirling but also further afield.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

There’s also an immense amount of drama to the sport; leaning into that truly transports the student away from a club experience and into a kind of delicious, LARP-y fugue state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Most of the ventures aim to develop electric or hybrid transports that take off and land like a helicopter and cruise like an airplane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Papperger said he expected the deal to be around 12.4 billion for the vehicles, primarily used as troop transports, and an additional service contract.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Our one goal was to avoid the transports, to stay here as long as possible.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

A Buckinghamshire village has been transported back to the 1990s for filming connected to the new Harry Potter television series.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Only around five percent of goods are transported by river in Germany.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

The satellites, known as V3, are bigger than previous versions and are designed to be transported on a larger rocket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

If the strategy proves effective, beneficial fungi could help astronauts produce larger and more reliable crops on the Moon and Mars while reducing dependence on food transported from Earth.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Or had he paid to have them transported and planted?

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

It was unclear if it was transporting Pike.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

The tracks were muddy and slippery, and the family had no way of transporting her.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The cost of transporting one container from China to Iran costs $12,000 via land routes compared with $3,000 by sea, he told KhabarOnline, an independent website close to regime moderates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"Black holes are key drivers of gas flows and motion in space, transporting vast amounts of energy to different regions of the cosmos."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

The cargo ship had been transporting hundreds of them before it was swept up in the storm.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown




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