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port

[pawrt, pohrt] / pɔrt, poʊrt /


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That ship, the MV Touska, had visited the Chinese port of Zhuhai twice last month before its return voyage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

“Even so, this revised level may still underestimate both the difficulty and duration of normalization, particularly given the scale of shut‑ins and the constraints around shipping, insurance, port damage, and debris clearance,” they said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

Readying California for offshore wind power will require a perfect concert of major port upgrades, hundreds of miles of new transmission lines and wind turbines as tall as the Eiffel Tower.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

The big driver of this is the free-trade port of Iquique in the north of the country.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

Five thousand battle-tested British soldiers had landed near Bladensburg, Maryland, a tobacco port about ten miles from Washington.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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