traverse
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Each passing week tankers can’t traverse the narrow waterway, the world loses 70 million barrels of oil, as well as a host of other products vital for chip manufacturing, medical equipment and consumer goods.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Shipping traffic remains throttled in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade route off Iran’s coast that fully a third of the world’s seagoing oil exports traverse in a normal year.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026
Iranian media reported on Monday that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp. had closed the Strait of Hormuz, promising to fire on any ship that attempts to traverse it, according to a Reuters report.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
Disregarding army notices alerting them to landmines, men and women traverse the dry, open ground that now stands where the ancient forest once grew.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
“Even primitive boats,” Fladmark has written, “could traverse the entire Pacific coast of North and South America in less than 10-15 years.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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