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[trans-pawrt, -pohrt, trans-pawrt, -pohrt] / trænsˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt, ˈtræns pɔrt, -poʊrt /






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Public transport like buses often overheat and she avoids Uber after "too many experiences where they've not let me in with a dog".

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

"We need to park or get off public transport close to our destinations."

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

"With water levels this low, commercial shipping will no longer be able to transport goods in the region," the group's managing director Jens Schwanen told the Rheinische Post newspaper.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Find insight on Wizz Air, Hero MotoCorp, Qantas and more in the latest Market Talks covering auto and transport.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Stanton ordered soldiers to transport the president back to the Executive Mansion.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

Papperger said he expected the deal to be around 12.4 billion for the vehicles, primarily used as troop transports, and an additional service contract.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Many who survived the Oryoku Maru would later say their ordeal on board the ship—one of more than 100 Japanese prisoner transports that would become known as “hellships”—was the worst of their captivity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

According to the study, the collision between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates gradually transports these pockets of magma toward the surface.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

He favors discretionary goods, transports and regional banks, amid falling oil prices and the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will be less hawkish than the market currently thinks.

From MarketWatch Jun. 29, 2026

It was therefore with confusion that we observed companies boarding transports.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Both developments threaten to derail a potential deal to reopen the strait, a key waterway through which one-fifth of the world’s oil is transported.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Shafiullah Ehsas, a father-of-five, transported his excavator hundreds of kilometres from Jalalabad about three months ago.

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

For the Sun's magnetic "framework" to change this quickly, magnetic flux must be transported efficiently away through the solar atmosphere.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

One person was transported to a hospital via private ambulance, but the individual’s identity was not disclosed.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

And I fell pretty far down that recursive wormhole until it transported me completely out of the White River High School cafeteria into some non-sensorial place only properly crazy people get to visit.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

Its open channels help materials involved in transporting ions spread more uniformly through the electrode.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

A ferry transporting more than 70 people sank while sailing near Selayar, a small tropical island south of Sulawesi, last month.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

The disputed Strait of Hormuz is a key waterway for transporting fertilizer and other key commodities, in addition to oil.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

So when state troopers spotted the suds, they charged Mr. Jouppi with a misdemeanor for knowingly transporting it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Before animal domestication, the sole means of transporting goods and people by land was on the backs of humans.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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