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shuttle

[shuht-l] / ˈʃʌt l /


VERB
travel back and forth
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The cost of getting it out is eye-watering: up to $40 million for a round-trip shuttle run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

To keep exporting oil, the kingdom’s flagship oil company Aramco has joined its regional peers in employing shuttle tankers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Most of the oil passing through the strait now moves via a "shuttle system" of more than 60 large oil tankers moving back and forth, according to Kpler.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

A portion of the oil is exiting via ship-to-ship transfers, for example, in which shuttle tankers take on the most hazardous part of the journey and then move it to ships headed to Asian refiners.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

A lab station and cubbies with open sample bags run down the center of the shuttle.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

No shuttles to find or Ubers to book in each direction on a tight schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Graham shuttles off this mortal coil with no such vindication.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

Moxi – which shuttles medical supplies around hospitals – might respond by displaying its heart-shaped LED eyes and a beep beep greeting of its own.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Starting Friday, nine transit hubs, including Union Station, Crenshaw Station and downtown Long Beach, will host shuttles that provide direct access to the stadium for $1.75 each way, according to Metro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Mrs. Tilbury swats a playful hand at him and shuttles back to the kitchen.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Prada shuttled more big spenders to Milan last week than it did for its previous womenswear show in February.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Witkoff later confirmed on X that the talks had been held "through the mediators, who shuttled between the two sides throughout the day".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Guests were shuttled to the Storm King Art Center, where we were greeted with Blank Street Coffee and lavender vanilla scoops from Laz’s Ice Cream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Instead of leaving on either that jet or “former” Air Force One, the president secretly hopped into an airport catering truck and shuttled to an Air Force C-32A, a smaller military plane.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

He and Van Brunt shuttled to and from Hunt’s hotel.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

“I left Paris thinking I’m going to goof off now,” Conlon explained, having for seven of his nine Paris years retained his positions in Cologne, shuttling between two exceptionally demanding jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Today, reporters must either forgo conversations in the building or spend hours chasing schedulers by phone and shuttling in and out of the building, according to the suit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

The talks themselves are expected to be indirect: the two delegations sitting in separate rooms with Pakistani officials shuttling proposals between them, mirroring the format used in earlier Oman-mediated rounds.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

The Pakistani intermediaries who will be shuttling between the two delegations have a tough job on their hands.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Wesley’s Methodism spread like wildfire through England and America because Wesley was shuttling back and forth among hundreds and hundreds of groups, and each group was then taking his message and making it even stickier.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell




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