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
There was a good Chinese restaurant run by a man whose father came to Aden in the 1940s, when it was a lively entrepôt full of Indians, Chinese, Africans and Arabs.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2018
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
It has long been the entrepôt and depôt of commerce with the wild tribes of prairie-land.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne
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Southeast Asia - Middle School
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Southeast Asia - High School
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