as in aqueduct
an open man-made passageway for water
the Panama Canal opened a much easier and shorter passageway from the Atlantic to the Pacific
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Recent Examples of canal
Apple's AirPods Pro 3, the third generation of its high-end in-canal noise-cancelling earphones, are getting some big upgrades.
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PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
There’s a small barge in a canal with a pole mounted on the front.
—Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
The Ganges has been a center of trade and devotion for centuries, the Brahmaputra feeds tea estates and wildlife-rich floodplains, and Kerala’s canals knit together fishing towns and rice paddies.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
Together, the two lighthouses have helped guide ships into the canal and under the Aerial Lift Bridge into the Duluth harbor for over a century.
—Dan Kraker, Twin Cities, 25 Aug. 2025
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PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
There’s a small barge in a canal with a pole mounted on the front.
—Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
The Ganges has been a center of trade and devotion for centuries, the Brahmaputra feeds tea estates and wildlife-rich floodplains, and Kerala’s canals knit together fishing towns and rice paddies.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
Together, the two lighthouses have helped guide ships into the canal and under the Aerial Lift Bridge into the Duluth harbor for over a century.
—Dan Kraker, Twin Cities, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canal
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Pipes are painted like tree trunks, flumes are supported by faux crumbling aqueducts, waterfalls gush through holes in the hulls of boats and sails hang overhead to protect from the searing sun.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The largest share of water consumed throughout San Diego County is imported by aqueducts from outside the county.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
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Midway, his son, Alexander Stirling Calder, posed three reclining Art Deco figures in a fountain, representing the three main waterways of the city.—
Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
16 Sep. 2025
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Hydroelectric stations have long generated the bulk of Kentucky's renewable energy, and each year, dams in Kentucky waterways produce the same electricity as would the combustion of billions of pounds of coal.—
Connor Giffin,
Louisville Courier Journal,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Canal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canal. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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