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noun

plural of transit
as in transports

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verb

present tense third-person singular of transit
as in traverses
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 transits
Noun
This means that the zodiac sign (namely its attributes, element and modality) Venus transits through can determine the personality of the transit. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026 The problem is that with an orbital period of somewhere around 355 days, transits of HD 137010b don't come along very often, and without knowing the orbital period precisely, astronomers don't know when to look for the next transit. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
The local administrative official reporter spoke to said the ELN controls both sides of the Colombia-Venezuela border and demands money for everything that transits through the area, not just drugs. — Nathan Jaccard, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026 For instance, as the moon transits through this Air sign, we are collectively drawn to options and variety. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026 The oil that reaches Yanbu then transits through the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. — Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 Eighty percent of oil that transits the waterway is bound for Asia. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 28 May 2026 But concerns are rising as 20% of the jet fuel used by the EU normally transits through the Strait of Hormuz. — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026 The Persian Gulf waterway typically transits roughly one-fifth of the world's oil and gas supplies. — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026 Though the oil and gas that typically transits the strait is primarily sold to Asian nations, Japan and South Korea were the only two countries from the region joining Thursday’s call about the strait. — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026 Due to Iran effectively blocking the flow of oil and gas that transits the Strait of Hormuz, energy prices have surged. — Callum Sutherland, Time, 20 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transits
  1. transports
  2. traverses
  3. conveyances
  4. crosses
  5. passages
  6. follows
  7. travels
  8. walks
Noun
  • In addition to roads maintained by Lake and Porter counties, the transports will move through Merrillville.
    — Jim Masters, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Officials are working with local hospitals to confirm the total number of self-transports.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of transports
Verb
  • Astronomers have also discovered that M30, along with several other globular clusters, traverses the Milky Way in the opposite direction to the galaxy's rotation.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • In it, a young kid traverses New Orleans to fish, goes door to door selling his game, and learns how to drive, among other things.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of traverses
Noun
  • The department has received more than 580 calls related to e-bikes and other e-conveyances.
    — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • As a global chief, Daunt gets around by subway and other unkingly conveyances.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of conveyances
Verb
  • Based on Nobel Prize Winning novel, Growth of the Soil tells the story of Isak, a man without a past who crosses the mountains in search of somewhere to build a life.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Weather prospects generally improve, too, as the path crosses the deserts of North Africa.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of crosses
Noun
  • OpenAI’s false-positive rate is 1 percent, meaning the detector is designed to wrongly flag about one in 100 unwatermarked passages.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2026
  • At the demonstration site, passages are wide enough for a push cart to move in one direction while an individual walks past in the other.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of passages
Verb
  • The story follows two middle-aged people revisiting a relationship from more than two decades earlier, exploring regret and the possibility of moving on.
    — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 8 Nov. 2026
  • For the Omaha Beach landing and the war that follows, Kaminski set out to make combat look like frontline footage rather than a Hollywood spectacle.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of follows
Verb
  • If the Warriors can push the ball and turn this into a shooting game, their style travels well, even in a tough building.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • When an alarm or sensor on windows, doors and home security devices is triggered, the textbook-sized drone travels a preset path to investigate suspicious activity.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of travels
Verb
  • Sam, who walks with a cane sometimes, is cool and dark and stylish, in an Anna Wintour mode.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Whatever the weather, the sentinel walks a 63-foot mat in 21 steps, turns to face the tomb for 21 seconds, and begins again.
    — Lars Hanson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of walks

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“Transits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transits. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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