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 As Bezos and the former TV personality partied on his mega-yacht before arriving in Venice for this week’s wedding, protesters have vowed to blockade the city’s canals and ports and to picket the wedding venue, whose location has not yet been made public. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 24 June 2025 While doctors delivered the baby's body and legs during the procedure, his head remained in the vaginal canal. Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2025 During delivery, the newborn’s head became stuck in the vaginal canal in a complicated medical event known as shoulder dystocia, according to Taylor and Ross’ lawsuit against St. Julian and Southern Regional Medical Center. Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 20 June 2025 Then into motorboats for hair-raising dashes through tortuous canals and across rough water to dams far back in some vast marsh. Nash Buckingham, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for canal
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  • The city later extended the aqueduct north to Mono Lake.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • The aqueduct, remarkably preserved, offers insights into Roman engineering and its historical significance.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • The decision to close the waterway now rests with the country's national security council, and its possibility has raised the specter of higher energy prices and aggravated geopolitical tensions, with Washington calling upon Beijing to prevent the strait's closure.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 23 June 2025
  • Twenty percent of global oil production flows through the Strait of Hormuz, and experts say closing the waterway would affect Iran’s economy significantly, as oil is one of the country’s largest exports.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 23 June 2025

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