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transit

[tran-zit, -sit] / ˈtræn zɪt, -sɪt /


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This comes as Tehran maintains a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for global energy and fertilizer transit.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

One is called transit, when the planet goes in front of the host star.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The mechanism aims to establish monitoring, inspections, maritime insurance and protocols to facilitate safe, orderly transit through the shipping lane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Metrolink is operated by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, overseen by members from multiple transit authorities including those of Los Angeles and Orange counties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Franny, in transit, ignored the telephone in the hall.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

Most confirmed exoplanets have instead been found through transits.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Hormuz transits are hard to measure, mostly because ships transiting the strategic waterway turn off their GPS-like signals for security measures and to avoid Iranian attacks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

It will be able to accumulate enough water to provide 10 to 15 additional transits per day or about the same volume consumed by drinking water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

In 2023, El Nino forced a reduction in daily transits from 38 to 22 due to the dramatic reduction in reservoir levels.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

One morning when Ishmael was eight years old a pair of surveyors had showed up with their transits and alidades and knotted red flagging everywhere.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

It said the Kenyan Ebola patient had transited through the country for less than 24 hours and screening teams had "observed he had a normal temperature at the time of departure".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The two soldiers had transited through a third country before arriving in South Korea earlier this month, a lawmaker who visited the pair of POWs in Ukraine last year said recently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Analysts at data-platform company Kpler said Friday that no crude liquids from Saudi Arabia had transited Bab al-Mandeb since Sunday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

And despite the overall lull in the fighting, Iran fired drones at oil tankers from the United Arab Emirates, another U.S. ally, as they transited the Strait of Hormuz this month.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

She has transited the Atlantic to attend our Congress, but can only be present at this evening's Inauguratory, as she must be in New York again before sundown to-morrow.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various

Maritime Trade Operations reporting several attacks on tankers transiting the waterway in recent weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Signs that tankers are transiting the Strait of Hormuz and renewed diplomatic efforts have encouraged oil traders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Hormuz transits are hard to measure, mostly because ships transiting the strategic waterway turn off their GPS-like signals for security measures and to avoid Iranian attacks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

The Panama Canal will restrict the number of vessels transiting the crucial waterway from Friday for the second time ever due to drought caused by the El Nino climate phenomenon.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Pain, and seeing two bright objects transiting the darkness at which he looked; seeing something then between.

From A Gift For Terra by Fox B. Holden




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