as in canal
an open man-made passageway for water the Erie Canal was the first watercourse to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes

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Recent Examples of watercourse The salmon were meant to be released in the Imnaha River, a 77-mile long watercourse in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. Zoe Sottile, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024 Living in White Plains, N.Y., in the 1980s, Mrs. Wallace galvanized a broad campaign to rescue the river, at the time an inaccessible 23-mile watercourse that was home to more flotsam, like the carcasses of junked cars and rusted refrigerators, than fauna. Sam Roberts, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 The Miami River, the five-mile watercourse that flows from Miami International Airport down to Biscayne Bay, also holds many chapters of Miami’s history on its banks. Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024 Recently surging watercourses have mellowed to tenable levels. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for watercourse
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Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • From there, water is pumped into a State Water Project aqueduct and moved south, mostly to Southern California.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
  • There was just enough water to float us through the dank tunnel under the ancient stone aqueduct that carries the canal over the mouth of the run, and out in the river there wasn’t much more.
    Arthur Grahame, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2025

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“Watercourse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/watercourse. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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