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 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 On Wednesday, Saudi shipping company Bahri said two Filipino sailors were killed in an attack late Monday as their vessel transited the strait. — David Rising, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 But that’s a fraction of the roughly 130 vessels that transited daily before the war began. — Konstantin Toropin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2026 The firm assessed that just five vessels had transited the strait Tuesday, down from seven on Monday and nine on Sunday. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026 Fewer than 20 ships transited the waterway over the weekend, with little sign of a US-Iran truce on the horizon. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 24 Aug. 2026

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To find their bodies, that afternoon Comella and other firemen traversed the steep, smoldering steel mountain using a series of ladders, a process not unlike the way trekkers negotiate the treacherous Khumbu ice fall at the base of Mount Everest.

— Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
As the airplane air-conditioning worked overtime in the desert heat, the grooms traversed the tarmac numerous times to shuttle water and supplies to the horses.

— Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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As the freshman crossed into the end zone, the stadium went dead silent in shock.

— Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
The team calculated a combined measure of heat and humidity that sets a lethal limit for modern endotherms and found that threshold was never crossed anywhere in their Cretaceous simulations.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2026

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The move is the first in a string of major central bank decisions this week, with the Bank of England up next, and followed by the Bank of Japan on Friday.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
That study, being conducted by DRC and Doctors Without Borders, will give participants a shot of Ervebo, followed a month later by a shot of an experimental vaccine designed to protect against the Sudan version of the Ebola virus.

— Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of followed

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In flight tests, the tiny drone navigated pitch-black enclosures, mapped unknown room layouts, hugged surface contours, and located exits without a single visual cue.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
Under Arnold’s leadership the FSF has navigated a period of significant change across both the organization and the fashion industry.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of navigated

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Technically, there were humans throughout this process, yet according to CNN, the error still travelled remarkably far.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026
The bra top style featured rhinestone adornments and a singular strap that traveled down the length of Larsson’s waist.

— Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2026

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