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port

[pawrt, pohrt] / pɔrt, poʊrt /


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There is also the small matter of a corruption probe just announced into Philippe in his function as mayor of the northern port city of Le Havre.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Darwin is Australia's closest port to Asia, and cargo shipments of commodities including iron ore and liquefied natural gas to China have dominated trade ties.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

In a post on social media Centcom said the ship was "suspected of attempting to violate the US blockade by transiting toward an Iranian port".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

A project that might be more feasible to expand is the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline, which carries oil primarily from eastern Russia to China and Russia’s Kozmino port, a terminal near Vladivostok.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

By the summer of 1781, Isaac and the rest of Jefferson’s enslaved people had joined thousands of African Americans in this small tobacco port on the Chesapeake Bay.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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