gulf
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With the Strait of Hormuz all but closed by Iranian forces, the gulf could serve as an escape route for Middle East oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
It also led to a legal dispute between Mexico and tech giant Google, which renamed the gulf in its maps application.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
What happened: Iranian drone and missile strikes on gulf neighbors continued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Workers will install 350 bolts for containment booms in the east of the gulf.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Each hath his element; each is wary of brigandage; and a gulf roils between us all.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The Strait of Hormuz has been a critical trading entrepôt for centuries, a passageway between the Persian and Oman gulfs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
"It does give me confidence because I think the problem before was that I felt like I was gulfs away from the very top."
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
We are connected, but the fact that we’re so disconnected in so many different ways, just trying to remind each other that with all of those gulfs, there is a way back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
The other two spawn in the spring in either the central Baltic or its gulfs farther north.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2022
She could feel the emptiness, the vast black gulfs of air that yawned around her.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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