transited

past tense of transit

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of transited 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 Oil flows ‘collapsed’ Before the war, about 20 million barrels of oil transited the Strait of Hormuz each day, representing about a fifth of the world’s supply. — Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 11 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 Data from analytics firm Kpler released on Monday showed that an average of 10 commodity ships transited the Strait of Hormuz per day over the past 10 days, the lowest number since May. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 9 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transited
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The annual domestic box office crossed the $8 billion mark on Friday and is up over 19% from last year.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • If the car or truck was rented in one state, set to return in another state and crossed into Mexico via a third, the coordination required between three state law enforcement agencies can make timely recovery of the vehicle even more complicated.
    — Steve Fisher Special Correspondent Follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Na planned it as an hour-long walk through his process, followed by half an hour of audience questions.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
  • That will be followed by North Asia, the United Arab Emirates and Australia in March 2027.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • How has the gallery navigated ups and downs and maintained the business side?
    — Lina Lecaro, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026
  • To reach it, BAS researchers set off from the Falkland Islands and navigated rough seas for two weeks.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Dwarf made a pilot short in 2023 at its own risk, partly through crowdfunding, and the pilot traveled far enough to bring Reeves aboard.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The initial investigation suggests the stabbing likely took place at another location and that Duncan traveled to the home where he was found.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The canal sparkled gray-green in the sunlight and on the opposite bank, people walked their dogs and relaxed on benches along 365’s esplanade.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The 400 extras who walked Moschino’s Milan runway (not in our rankings this season, but an important show nonetheless) did something similar.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026

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