transit
Example Sentences
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Our transit overlords didn’t come up with this rotten idea on their own.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
The ones that remain tend to orbit much farther away, making them difficult to detect with current transit methods used by Kepler and TESS.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026
New York isn’t the only city where transit costs are surging for the World Cup.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Importantly, land values largely reflect the benefits of public investments that make urban locations desirable—in transit, schools, parks, for example.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
The first transit of Mercury was seen by Gassendi in 1631; of Venus by Horrocks in 1639.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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