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naval

[ney-vuhl] / ˈneɪ vəl /


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“The political calculator changes,” said Sidharth Kaushal, an expert in naval power at U.K. think tank the Royal United Services Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

No ships transited the strait to or from Iranian ports on Tuesday, indicating the threat of U.S. naval power was enough to deter Tehran for now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

This dynamic was expected to disappear once the Strait of Hormuz disruption was resolved, but that timeline has become “increasingly uncertain following the newly announced U.S. naval blockade,” he added.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

“But if the next step is a naval clash, attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure, or a widening of regional military operations, then the market will start to price a much more dangerous scenario,” she cautioned.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

In gardening, in cooking, in naval architecture there are lots of culturally specific choices that we can make, but there are plenty of other things that simply cannot be done.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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