Thesaurus results for TRANSITED

transited

verb

past tense of transit

as in traversed

to make one's way through, across, or over once you transit that stretch of dense woods, the hiking should be much easier

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Recent Examples of transited Just seven tankers transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, less than half the seven-day average and the lowest number since July 23, data from Kpler showed. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2026 On Wednesday, Centcom said that 20 million barrels of crude had transited the strait, rejecting Iranian claims that the waterway was closed. — Spencer Kimball,deena Zaidi, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026 In 2024, Japan’s navy also transited the Taiwan Strait for the first time, and Tokyo procured 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States. — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026 Malpensa is Italy’s second-busiest, with 31 million passengers passing through last year, compared with the 51 million passengers who transited Rome’s international airport, according to the aviation authority. — Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Before the war, more than 80% of Iran’s trade tonnage transited by sea via southern ports, but that’s been closed off. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026 Between 26 and 35 vessels per day have transited this week, down from the 35 to 40 daily average of the prior eight weeks, according to Dimitris Ampatzidis, maritime risk and compliance manager at Kpler. — Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026 Reuters reported Friday that only seven vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, compared with a prewar daily average of 125, underscoring the pressure already facing the region’s other critical maritime choke point. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026 An average of 10 commodity ships transited the Strait per day in the past 10 days, the lowest since May, according to shipping data on Monday. — Nayera Abdallah, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2026

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Concerns over driverless robotaxis, such as the Waymo vehicles that have traversed the Atlanta streets since last year, are also reasonable.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 11 Oct. 2026
So while Waddington’s landscape looked like a static territory waiting to be traversed, the real landscape changes as cells develop.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026

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Scores of drones have crossed into Romanian airspace over the past two years, with officials attributing many of the incursions to Russia.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Twenty-six seconds earlier, Nicole Shelton of Morristown, New Jersey, had crossed the finish line with little fanfare.

— Vivian Yao, Baltimore Sun, 17 Oct. 2026

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Another 24 new releases are lined up for the rest of the year; most of them originals (20) followed by new seasons (3) and a saga.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
What followed was a difficult stretch, with works by Cy Twombly, George Condo, Alberto Giacometti, and Lucian Freud among those failing to find buyers.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

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Two weeks before October 7, Mossad director David Barnea traveled to Doha and asked Qatar to renew the funding, the New York Times reported in 2023.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
Andy Beshear Andy Beshear, the two-term governor of Kentucky who cannot run again under state law, has traveled to a dozen states to campaign with Democratic candidates or headline party dinners, including four of the six early states.

— Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026

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Later in the inning, Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia walked in the tying run (credited to starter Tyler Glasnow for having initially loaded the bases).

— Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Finklea and his friend Ira Williams, 70, were shot to death when someone walked up to Finklea’s car along Northwest 30th Avenue and fired more than a dozen shots.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026

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