Rapidan

American  

[rap-i-dan] / ˌræp ɪˈdæn /

noun

1. a river in N Virginia, flowing E from the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Rappahannock River: Civil War battle 1862.

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Example Sentences

During the 2007-08 global financial crisis, a spike in oil collided with “a leveraged financial system already stressed from housing and wholesale funding pressure,” the Rapidan team said.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

While Saudi Arabia has rerouted some supplies through existing pipelines to export terminals elsewhere, analysts including Rapidan Energy Group say 10 million or more barrels of petroleum a day remain throttled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Rapidan Energy Group says the 20% disruption from “Gulf War III” is more than double the prior record set in 1956-57.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

“The primary holders of spare capacity — Saudi Arabia and the UAE — have been cut off from global oil markets, effectively eliminating the industry’s traditional shock absorber,” Rapidan said of the Iran conflict.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

By daylight the army was all safe across the Rapidan, having marched, or rather run twenty miles; several of the men were unable to keep up and were captured.

From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton