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
In time, America became such an entrepôt among these continents that an eighteenth-century visitor, lending this show its title and theme, called Mexico City ‘the archive of the world.’
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
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
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
Important commercial advantages cannot fail to accrue from the occupation of so secure an entrepôt, which at any season of the year may be entered and quitted with equal facility.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
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Southeast Asia - Middle School
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