transatlantic
adjective
trans·at·lan·tic
ˌtran(t)s-ət-ˈlan-tik 
ˌtranz-
1
a
: crossing or extending across the Atlantic Ocean
a transatlantic cable
b
: relating to or involving crossing the Atlantic Ocean
transatlantic airfares
2
a
: situated or originating from beyond the Atlantic Ocean
b
: of, relating to, or involving countries on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and especially the U.S. and Great Britain
transatlantic cooperation
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Those will be followed by a two-week transatlantic voyage to Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Oct. 22, 2025.
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Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
After a transatlantic courtship, the couple announced their engagement in March 2001 and married in February 2002.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
In the first half of the 19th century, after much of the world had banned the transatlantic slave trade but before the end of slavery, a highly lucrative contraband trade continued to supply Brazil with enslaved Africans.
—Rafael Vilela, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
This slashing of the costs of finding out anything is changing the world in the way that the transatlantic telegraph cable or jet-engine airliners did generations ago.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2024
Stevenson incorporates video and even holograms into the exhibits, creating a black-box-theatre experience in order to tell an epic story: the evolution of anti-Black violence in America, from the transatlantic slave trade to Jim Crow terrorism and today’s mass-incarceration crisis.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
In the attack, a Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb 38 minutes after take-off while flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
These calls, which have only grown louder in the days following the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in an Israeli airstrike, are now coming from some of the highest levels of transatlantic politics.
—Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
Offering a real sense of time and place, the dining room greets guests nose-to-nose with a 48-foot Concorde passenger jet sculpture suspended from the ceiling that pays tribute to the last supersonic transatlantic flight between New York and London.
—Stacey Wreathall, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2024
Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
After a transatlantic courtship, the couple announced their engagement in March 2001 and married in February 2002.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
In the first half of the 19th century, after much of the world had banned the transatlantic slave trade but before the end of slavery, a highly lucrative contraband trade continued to supply Brazil with enslaved Africans.
—Rafael Vilela, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
This slashing of the costs of finding out anything is changing the world in the way that the transatlantic telegraph cable or jet-engine airliners did generations ago.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2024
Stevenson incorporates video and even holograms into the exhibits, creating a black-box-theatre experience in order to tell an epic story: the evolution of anti-Black violence in America, from the transatlantic slave trade to Jim Crow terrorism and today’s mass-incarceration crisis.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
In the attack, a Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb 38 minutes after take-off while flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
These calls, which have only grown louder in the days following the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in an Israeli airstrike, are now coming from some of the highest levels of transatlantic politics.
—Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
Offering a real sense of time and place, the dining room greets guests nose-to-nose with a 48-foot Concorde passenger jet sculpture suspended from the ceiling that pays tribute to the last supersonic transatlantic flight between New York and London.
—Stacey Wreathall, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2024
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transatlantic
adjective
trans·at·lan·tic
ˌtran(t)s-ət-ˈlant-ik
ˌtranz-
1
: crossing or extending across the Atlantic Ocean
a transatlantic cable
2
: located or coming from beyond the Atlantic Ocean
our transatlantic friends
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