supply line
noun
: the route that is used to deliver food, equipment, etc., to soldiers during a war
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Iraq, the second-largest oil producer in the region and in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, depends on Iranian gas imports to generate much of its electricity – a supply line now directly threatened by the war.
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Ezgi Canpolat, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
Iran's Revolutionary Guard also said Tuesday on Telegram that a gas supply line feeding a power station in southwest Iran was struck overnight.
—Npr Staff, NPR, 24 Mar. 2026
This is on the same main line where work had already been done to fix an issue on the liquid hydrogen supply line.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, said in a short statement Friday that a truce had taken effect in southern Ukraine to enable the restoration of the 330-kilovolt supply line to Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
All stores in the strip mall were evacuated, and crews located a gas meter behind the building that had been dislodged from the supply line coming from the ground.
—CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
With its supply line throttled, the plasmasphere struggled to rebuild, highlighting how tightly linked Earth's atmospheric layers become during extreme space-weather events.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
The role, supply line and trust from Baumgart suggest his scoring will remain a net positive even once the streak cools.
—Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
To avoid further supply line pinches like this, GM recently struck a long-term deal with Noveon Magnetics, whose San Marcos, Texas, facility is the only rare earth magnet manufacturer in the United States.
—Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
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Ezgi Canpolat, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
Iran's Revolutionary Guard also said Tuesday on Telegram that a gas supply line feeding a power station in southwest Iran was struck overnight.
—Npr Staff, NPR, 24 Mar. 2026
This is on the same main line where work had already been done to fix an issue on the liquid hydrogen supply line.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, said in a short statement Friday that a truce had taken effect in southern Ukraine to enable the restoration of the 330-kilovolt supply line to Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
All stores in the strip mall were evacuated, and crews located a gas meter behind the building that had been dislodged from the supply line coming from the ground.
—CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
With its supply line throttled, the plasmasphere struggled to rebuild, highlighting how tightly linked Earth's atmospheric layers become during extreme space-weather events.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
The role, supply line and trust from Baumgart suggest his scoring will remain a net positive even once the streak cools.
—Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
To avoid further supply line pinches like this, GM recently struck a long-term deal with Noveon Magnetics, whose San Marcos, Texas, facility is the only rare earth magnet manufacturer in the United States.
—Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
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