Definitions
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- noun an arm of the Arabian Sea connecting it with the Persian Gulf
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Examples
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The announcement came just days after the Iranian navy concluded exercises in the nearby Gulf of Oman.
Threat by Iran Adds to Specter of Conflict in Oil Lane Keith Johnson 2012
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European Pressphoto Agency An Iranian warship fires during exercises on Jan. 1 in the Gulf of Oman that heightened regional tensions.
Threat by Iran Adds to Specter of Conflict in Oil Lane Keith Johnson 2012
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Iran said Wednesday its Revolutionary Guard Corps would conduct large-scale air, land and sea exercises in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, apparently including the strategic Strait of Hormuz, at a time of heightened tensions between Tehran and the West over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. military official says the Navy had a close encounter with an Iranian surveillance jet last week in the Gulf of Oman.
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Navy might no longer be able to protect the oil tankers traveling from the Persian Gulf to fuel East Asia, a coalition of Tehran, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi form an unexpected new Gulf alliance and affirm that China's new fleet of swift aircraft carriers will henceforth patrol the Persian Gulf from a base on the Gulf of Oman.
Alfred W. McCoy: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire: Four Scenarios for the End of the American Century by 2025 Alfred W. McCoy 2010
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. military official says the Navy had a close encounter with an Iranian surveillance plane last week in the Gulf of Oman.
Iranian Military Plane 'Buzzes' U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier 2010
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Navy might no longer be able to protect the oil tankers traveling from the Persian Gulf to fuel East Asia, a coalition of Tehran, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi form an unexpected new Gulf alliance and affirm that China's new fleet of swift aircraft carriers will henceforth patrol the Persian Gulf from a base on the Gulf of Oman.
Alfred W. McCoy: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire: Four Scenarios for the End of the American Century by 2025 Alfred W. McCoy 2010
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That's just south of the Gulf of Oman, the waterway that feeds into the Strait of Hormuz.
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It is situated in the eastern corner of the Arabian peninsula and is bordered in the north by the Persian Gulf, in the east by the Gulf of Oman and Oman, and in the south and west by Saudi Arabia.
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Six of the seven Emirates lie on the coast of the Persian Gulf, while the seventh, Fujairah, is situated on the eastern coast of the peninsula and has direct access to the Gulf of Oman.
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