traverse

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Shipping traffic remains throttled in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade route off Iran’s coast that fully a third of the world’s seagoing oil exports traverse in a normal year.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

The book’s passages spiral out from the exhausted major’s days in the Arabian Desert to traverse the duration of his lengthy and accomplished military career.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Iranian media reported on Monday that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp. had closed the Strait of Hormuz, promising to fire on any ship that attempts to traverse it, according to a Reuters report.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Parents have since paid for a temporary scaffold bridge that allows people to traverse the condemned bridge.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026

The giant metal “drift tubes” suspended inside the cylinder, which the deuteron beam would traverse, each weighed several tons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik