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route

[root, rout] / rut, raʊt /




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To submit an FKT, the route must be at least five miles long or have at least 500 feet of climbing.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Tehran has refused to let ships travel any route other than one which hugs the Iranian coast.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

Tessa Caspers, 33, set the fastest women’s time for the route at 38 days, 2 hours last year.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

"The Canal and River Trust are doing their best to stem those losses but the effect it has is that people will not be able to travel on an arterial route."

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Britain had been watching events from across the English Channel, its critical sea route to the outside world, and now felt threatened.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

"We know they interact with our bodies in so many ways, and understanding how to create them can help provide totally new routes of testing."

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

At the port, thousands of cargo containers are transferred between global shipping routes monthly.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Residents and motorists have been asked to follow all road closure signs and diversion routes, which are in place for public safety.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Oil-exporting countries have found increasingly creative — and costly — alternative routes for their crude.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

The lines in front of the buses had mostly disappeared and the drivers were only waiting for the final okay to start their routes.

From "George" by Alex Gino

It was that public safety had to be routed through either federal or state policing for the claim to become legible.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Aviation Minister JoBeth Coleby-Davis told reporters a plane had earlier routed back to Nassau when the pilot reported an issue.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Mike Trout hit a two-run homer in his return rom the injured list and the Angels routed the Texas Rangers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

A section within the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, called the Durbin amendment, caps fees large banks can collect from merchants on debit-card transactions, if they are routed through an outside network.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

He hurried back to his companions, but he said nothing: the bones were best left in peace and not pawed and routed by Gollum.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

That’s leading to the rise of model routing — a technique that directs queries to the most suitable AI model.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

The buzz: Unbeaten Belgium didn’t score a goal of its own until routing New Zealand 5-1 in its group-play finale.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

It does this by checking a model’s request for tool authorization against an organization’s active directory and routing execution through compliance filters, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

Chinese-developed language models account for around 61% of token consumption among top-ten models, according to data from OpenRouter, an API routing platform used by thousands of startups, she said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 15, 2026

Or we pass around our routing sheet and study the day’s owners’ “Hot Buttons,” as sketched in by Tammy.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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