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 Shipping monitor Lloyd’s List said at least 54 ships had transited the ‌strait last week, around double the number from the week before. —

Reuters, NBC news, 20 May 2026 The British navy's Marine Traffic Operations center previously said no tanker movements had been tracked between May 6 and 8, and that no cargo vessels were known to have transited between May 6 and 9. —

Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 11 May 2026 The alert was issued shortly after the United States military announced that two merchant ships had transited the Strait of Hormuz. —

ABC News, 4 May 2026 Still, the latest shipping data shows that most vessels that have transited the Strait of Hormuz in recent days have taken the route designated by Iranian authorities, and about half of them loaded their cargoes at Iranian ports in defiance of the US blockade. —

Henrik Pettersson, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026 Malaysia’s Marine Department said more than 102,500 ships, mostly commercial vessels, transited through the Malacca Strait in 2025, up from around 94,300 in 2024. —

Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026 At least nine tankers have transited the sea lane since Monday, the data showed. —

Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026

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Iran's near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz has thrown global oil trade into disarray, cutting off importers from around one-fifth of the global oil supply that traversed the waterway before the war.

— USA Today, USA Today, 18 May 2026
Tehran denied that, but Danish shipping and logistics company Maersk subsequently confirmed that one of its ships had traversed the strait with US protection.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 4 May 2026