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viaduct
noun
via·duct
ˈvī-ə-ˌdəkt 
: a long elevated roadway usually consisting of a series of short spans supported on arches, piers, or columns
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Highways, viaducts, giant interchanges, and a major Metro junction viciously mutilated São Paulo’s downtown in the 1960s and ’70s, demoting it from a popular residential area to a commercial transfer hub, overcrowded and polluted by day but forlorn by night.
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Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
The rail system, whose first bond issue was approved by California voters in 2008, has built more than 50 major railway structures, including bridges, overpasses, undercrossings, and viaducts, and completed nearly 80 miles of guideway for the project.
—David Shepardson, USA Today, 28 Dec. 2025
The bridge is closed at South 16th Street and West Pierce Street, and at the bottom of the viaduct ramp.
—David Clarey, jsonline.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Woitekaitis failed to negotiate the trail and hit a sign, which threw him off the snowmobile and into the concrete viaduct, the coroner's office said.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
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Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
The rail system, whose first bond issue was approved by California voters in 2008, has built more than 50 major railway structures, including bridges, overpasses, undercrossings, and viaducts, and completed nearly 80 miles of guideway for the project.
—David Shepardson, USA Today, 28 Dec. 2025
The bridge is closed at South 16th Street and West Pierce Street, and at the bottom of the viaduct ramp.
—David Clarey, jsonline.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Woitekaitis failed to negotiate the trail and hit a sign, which threw him off the snowmobile and into the concrete viaduct, the coroner's office said.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for viaduct
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“Viaduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/viaduct. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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viaduct
noun
via·duct
ˈvī-ə-ˌdəkt
: a bridge for carrying a road or railroad over something (as a gorge or a highway)
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