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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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Noun

One of the biggest transits of the month arrives on April 25, which is when change-maker Uranus returns to the sign of Gemini — after its brief transit in 2025 — signaling a new chapter in the realm of communication and mindset. —

Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 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

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 Tehran wants a new order for the Strait of Hormuz—one that would let Iran collect fees from every ship that transits the waterway, modeled on the toll Egypt collects from vessels passing through the Suez Canal. —

Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 25 Mar. 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 Goods trade between India and Europe usually transits via the Suez Canal, but due to the disruptions caused by the conflict in Middle East, ships now have no option but to take an even longer route via Cape of Good Hope. —

Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026 But analysts warn stockpile releases can only partially offset prolonged disruption in the Gulf, where roughly a fifth of global oil consumption normally transits the Strait of Hormuz. —

Npr Staff, NPR, 12 Mar. 2026 More than 20% of the globe’s supply of oil typically transits through the waterway to reach the international markets. —

Steve Kopack, NBC news, 11 Mar. 2026 Big ones, small ones, and anything in between could be talked over while Mercury transits your 9th House of Learning. —

Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026 These cultures also incorporate that colonialism, and incorporate traditions that were carried by people from other places that came with the colonists; further, all this is mixed with contemporary cultural complexities that each of those countries transits through during the twenty-first century. —

Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025

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Noun

With the war paused, expect the transports and tech stocks to be the biggest winners.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
But just before extraction, two C-130 transports planes designed for special ops missions got stuck at the FARP, delaying their escape, according to the Times.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2026