strait

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It also has significant stockpiles of short-range missiles capable of reaching U.S. bases in the Gulf and ships in the straits of Hormuz, although estimates of those missiles vary.

From The Wall Street Journal

With U.S. warships that once patrolled the strait now deployed chasing drug boats in the Caribbean and mopping up Inuit resistance on Greenland’s coasts, Taipei quickly capitulated.

From The Wall Street Journal

I spotted a small fishing boat alone in the strait, one I recognized by now as belonging to a fisherman named Simon, who supplied langoustines to the distillery restaurant.

From The Wall Street Journal

They had worked for an NGO that rescued asylum-seekers at risk of drowning between 2015 to 2018, when hundreds of thousands of migrants crossed the narrow straits from Turkey to Greece.

From BBC

Global oil markets faced the same issue as recently as June when news reports indicated Iran’s parliament had endorsed closing the strait.

From MarketWatch