strait
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The link was commissioned during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, which saw attacks on ships in the strait.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
The strait was previously the conduit for about one-fifth of the world’s output of crude and crude-oil products.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
“The genie is out of the bottle given that the longstanding threat of Iran effectively closing the strait has now materialized.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Before the conflict, about one-third of the world’s fertilizer trade moved through the strait.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 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
Vocabulary lists containing strait
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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