transit
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The final aim is for regular military escorts and surveillance—via frigates and destroyers—to give shipping companies confidence that it is safe to transit the strait.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Two U.S. guided-missile destroyers passed through the strait on Saturday, three U.S. officials said, the first transit by American warships during the war and a challenge to Iran’s control of the waterway.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
On Thursday, it announced the creation of new transit routes, north of the two existing traffic separation channels.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
“Safe transit capacity is expected to remain constrained to a maximum of 10–15 passages a day if the ceasefire holds,” the ship-tracking service added.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
They still feel somehow in transit, still disconnected from their lives, bound up in an alternate schedule, an intimacy only the four of them share.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing transit
Geography and World Regions
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for May 1–May 7, 2021
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