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transit

[tran-zit, -sit] / ˈtræn zɪt, -sɪt /


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Europeans, however, are eager to see a resolution and shipping traffic return to normal in the Strait of Hormuz energy transit hub.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Transportation analysts believe Raman, who has a graduate degree in urban planning from MIT, will be more aggressive in addressing transit issues than Bass, whose background was in healthcare and community organizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen have effectively policed shipping in the Red Sea using an often-overlooked application system for captains seeking transit clearances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

She vowed to bring “gentle density” — duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes — to single-family neighborhoods that are near public transit hubs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Our technology is, so far, utterly incapable of such grand interstellar voyages, at least in reasonable transit times.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Following the latest case in Nigeria, Uganda's health ministry said preliminary information indicated that the patient had transited through Uganda without symptoms.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 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

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

Other shipping companies have transited the Arctic passage before, with Denmark's Maersk the first to do so in 2018.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

She has transited the Atlantic to attend our Congress, but can only be present at this evening's Inauguratory, as she must be in New York again before sundown to-morrow.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various

Ugandan officials had previously said the patient in Nigeria had travelled to eastern DR Congo, only transiting through Uganda.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

There were 727,487 people who came to the UK via visas from July 2025 to June 2026, not including visitors or people transiting through the UK.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Oil extended gains, with the WTI December futures contract above $100 a barrel and Brent at $111.25—its highest since May—as Iranian strikes on vessels transiting Hormuz hampered energy flows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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

We will expand our global capability for detecting illicit materials, weapons, and personnel transiting abroad or heading for the United States or U.S. interests overseas.

From National Strategy for Combating Terrorism September 2006 by National Security Council (U.S.)


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