seagoing

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Shipping traffic remains throttled in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade route off Iran’s coast that fully a third of the world’s seagoing oil exports traverse in a normal year.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

“Our wreck suggests a seagoing exchange was conducted west out of Syria and Canaan to southern Cyprus, Crete and other Greek lands.”

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

Before it was found, there were no known wrecks of seagoing ships dating from the 11th to 14th Centuries in English waters.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024

It was in truth more of a circus, with water tanks instead of rings, where captive marine mammals and other seagoing creatures were trained to do tricks for admission-paying human audiences.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023

Now when at sundown shadows crossed the lanes she dragged the cutter to the sea and launched it, fitted out with tough seagoing gear, and tied it up, away at the harbor’s edge.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer