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plural of transit

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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

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

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 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

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Noun

Competitions were canceled, horse racing fixtures abandoned and international horse transports halted.

— Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Built in 1953, Line 5 transports up to 540,000 barrels of crude oil and natural gas liquids.

— Daniel Markind, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of transports

Verb

Once the inventory crosses that hard threshold, the law explicitly prohibits these routine limited drawdowns.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Pluto fails at this because its orbit actually crosses Neptune's, and it's accompanied by other Kuiper belt objects in neighboring orbits.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of crosses

Noun

Matisse takes every opportunity to disturb passages of chromatic balance.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Essentially a form of computational fluid dynamics, the simulation divides the flow passages into a very large number of tiny regions and calculates things such as velocity, pressure, turbulence, and temperature throughout the component.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of passages

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The 12-episode series – produced by Studio Dragon and released as a TVING original on CJ ENM‘s Korean streaming platform – follows Kang Seong-jae, played by Park Ji-hoon, a young man who joins the military to escape a difficult reality.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026
White Pony ranks as the group’s second-longest-running effort with 40 frames somewhere on the tally, while Koi No Yokan follows with 15.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of follows

Verb

Linebacker Weston Reis also came through for 2-0 Palos Verdes, which travels to Carson next Thursday in another challenging nonleague game.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
The story follows Ana, a young Black French woman who, following the death of her grandmother, travels to her matriarch’s birth city of Belo Horizonte.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of travels

Verb

Edgewater defensive tackle Wes Hendry walks off the field with cramps.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Every year, more than 27,000 members of the Television Academy — actors and editors, showrunners and composers, the people who actually make television — sit down with their ballots and decide who walks away with an Emmy.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026

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