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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tideway
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Instead, Trump spent most of his 40 minutes speaking to roughly 1,000 supporters in a casino ballroom lauding his win in November, mocking former President Biden’s administration and touting his torrent of executive actions since taking office.—
Will Weissert and Thomas Beaumont,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025 -
But before the volcano unleashed its torrent of rock, ash and toxic gases, Pompeii was just another Roman town on the coast of the Mediterranean.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Jan. 2025
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This option returns the pond to its full former glory including sluice gate repair, dredging the full pond area and recreational enhancements to include 5.7 acres of open water and two fishing platforms.—
Erik S. Hanley,
Journal Sentinel,
9 Dec. 2024
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In 2014, Kyrgyz and Tajik conscripts exchanged fire over a strategic sluice in Ak-Sai.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Aug. 2016
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Northern California’s famed ‘Glory Hole’ spillway is used for first time in years.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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The hardware, or physical infrastructure, is the spillway and dam, which in the case of New Bullards Bar, holds back almost 1 million acre-feet of water.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacramento Bee,
11 Feb. 2025
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Wilson’s New Freedom would open the sluiceways of competition by slashing tariffs, strengthening anti-trust laws and increasing access to credit.—
Richard Norton Smith,
WSJ,
19 Apr. 2018
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The town has opened the floodgate to the dam draining the pond behind it and allowing Roaring Brook to flow freely downstream through a sluiceway.—
Peter Marteka,
Courant Community,
12 Apr. 2018
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Also in attendance: Nashville architect Alan Dooley, who helped the church win a historic designation for the building, and that allowed Metro Codes to issue permits for the rebuild, even though the building is (clearly) in a floodway.—
The Tennessean,
The Tennessean,
22 Dec. 2024
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For one thing, the equipment and restrooms sit right in the floodway, and are often a few inches deep in standing water when Walnut Creek overflows after heavy rainfall.—
Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 July 2024
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Such intense rainfall, especially when combined with rain that had fallen earlier in the week, poses of risk of causing rivers to rise and flood.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
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Hindus believe that a third, mythical river called the Saraswati joins the other two there in a sacred confluence.—
Atul Loke,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Tideway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tideway. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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