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strait

[streyt] / streɪt /


NOUN
water channel
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The goal is minimal, a memorandum of understanding to stop the fighting, open the strait and set up talks on more difficult issues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

He said the operation had secured the passage of more than 100 million barrels of oil through the strait since it began.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Digital news outlet Axios reported that US forces had attacked several Iranian air defence systems and radar systems around the strait.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

“This was the worst thing we could come up with. We kind of assumed it was not possible, that the strait was kind of too big to fail,” Halff said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 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




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