entrepot
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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
Los Angeles is also a major metropolitan entrepôt, and that means a steady supply of new visitors, people who want to experience a mostly invisible business — filmmaking — in a tangible way.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022
Or does it portend a flattening of Los Angeles into just another entrepôt of a single art system — one less and less distinct from New York?
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2019
Sure, New Orleans sits near the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River and is an important entrepôt and site for export of raw materials, agricultural commodities chemicals, and petroleum products.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017
Already the up-river steamers were afloat on all the tributary streams of the mighty Mississippi, laden with the produce of its almost limitless valley, and converging towards the great Southern entrepôt of American commerce.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne
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