strait
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“This was the worst thing we could come up with. We kind of assumed it was not possible, that the strait was kind of too big to fail,” Halff said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Even if the strait reopens this month, the International Energy Agency expects the oil market to be short of barrels until the fourth quarter of this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Their most severe scenario was the current Hormuz reality, whereby the strait, the former conduit of about a fifth of the world’s crude and crude products, essentially closed.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
The strait is a key waterway for energy transit, sending prices soaring.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
In those waters was that most perilous strait guarded by Scylla and Charybdis, which the Argonauts had succeeded in passing only because Thetis helped them and where Ulysses had lost six of his men.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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