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Despite the threat of strikes, conservatives in Tehran have watched with rising alarm as traffic that was deterred from crossing during the war now ply the U.S.-backed route near Oman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The instant that Oklahoma City delivers the knockout blow to L.A., he will be free to ply his trade wherever he sees fit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

The demand has given rise to a burgeoning gray market, where wellness spas, multilevel marketers and telehealth websites ply the public with vials of “research grade” peptides labeled “not for human use.”

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

With the dead tanker's identity magically resurrected, the zombie ship continues to ply its trade, free from sanctions.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

She will let me talk with her and assist her work, but she turns to stone when I ply her with food.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Sheinbaum's interest in her art had "changed her life," the trained business administrator said in Oaxaca in southern Mexico, where she now plies her art.

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

One Colombian pilot who plies the Caribbean said crews look for any advantage, from sailing at night or in rough weather, even in storms when Colombian government patrol boats might stay in port.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

She plies a similar jovial egocentrism as a substitute teacher on “Abbott Elementary,” and both characters are insufferable to the adults in the room.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024

The famous Delta Queen steamboat that now plies the Mississippi was built in Stockton to move passengers and freight in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

The coche d'eau, as it is whimsically called, is a passage-boat which plies between Châlons and Lyons: places are reserved in it for those who may arrive by the diligence from Paris.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby

At a nearby beach resort, a high-speed Coast Guard vessel plied the waters for two people still missing after swimming in waters that churned violently as the quake struck.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

Next to them, Colbert plied his art slyly, even mildly, but regularly and in ways the nerdiest students of comedy could appreciate.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

The great stories of exploration and trade and imperial rivalry are here, from the Phoenician sailors who plied the ancient Mediterranean to the 17th-century Dutch who traded in the East Indies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

As mouse-eared pilgrims plied the sidewalks outside, the party faithful — meeting several long blocks from Disneyland — engaged in their own bit of escapism and magical thinking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025

Dwarfing that would have been the big grain ships that plied the Egypt—Italy route in Roman times, such as the 180- foot-long, 44-foot-wide Isis described by Lucian of Samosata in the second century ce.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Owners of several vehicles plying the streets rejoiced with symbolic honks and screams, most of them either waving the flag or hanging samples by their car windows.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

The model’s greatest success was unearthing Claudio Braga, a Portuguese forward who was plying his trade in the Norwegian second division.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

He’s a retired wrestler who comes back into her life after his other family kicks him to the curb, and reasons that they’re both entertainers plying their craft to make ends meet.

From Salon ● May 4, 2026

Navy could escort ships through the strait, and he has ordered an arm of the federal government to offer insurance to shipping lines plying those waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

There will be great heat and unbearable light—the hell within hell— but I don’t look at the light, only at the flower, «nmulti- plying, ««dividing itself back from the many toward one.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes