acequia

Definition of acequianext
Southwest

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of acequia Thursday At 1pm, head to Mission San Juan for a free immersive agricultural tour and an acequia demonstration. Megan Stringer, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024 But the biggest challenge to saving acequias may be preserving the age-old knowledge behind their existence. Constant Méheut, New York Times, 19 July 2023 With them, the melt is diverted to multiple acequias winding through the hills. Constant Méheut, New York Times, 19 July 2023 Hundreds of small fish swim in the acequia, the irrigation canal. Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Dec. 2022 Human artifacts dating more than 10,000 years have been found at Brackenridge, and an acequia was built there in the 1720s to irrigate crops at the Mission San Antonio de Valero. Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Nov. 2021 In a good year, his acequia can water homes from spring through mid-October. Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2021 Even then, the acequia reflected the blending of cultural traditions. New York Times, 13 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acequia
Noun
  • Ducking into Maryam Lashkari, Hodjat Salimi and Oscar Tuazon’s interactive sculpture — an enormous cardboard tube lying on its side — feels like entering a culvert or a bomb shelter.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In particular, Gastevich said the flooding problems have been created because of a blockage of the nearby Kemper Ditch and a culvert.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Built into a natural ravine, the stadium’s site was used for ancient Greek athletic contests and later Roman spectacles before falling into centuries of disuse.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Rising from near the Aegean coast to 9,573-foot Mytikas, Greece’s highest peak, the mountain encompasses forests, ravines, limestone cliffs, and alpine habitat with unusually rich plant diversity.
    Bailey Berg, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Hazlewood also captured Taijul Islam, taken at gully by Green for 17.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Sarah’s partner Elijah, Karissa and I continued up into the mountains, scrambling over loose rocks to get closer to a gully carved into the side of a mountain towering behind the pools.
    Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • Northrop Grumman’s Raid Hunter aims to fill the last-ditch point-defense gap.
    David Szondy August 19, New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Kellogg says that drafting a basic essay is as mentally taxing as digging a ditch is physically exhausting.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Others are keeping data analog longer, since early digitization is expensive and skipping it for certain operations cuts out a major power drain.
    David Schie, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Twin-tub machines are lighter and cheaper but require you to manually fill, drain and move clothes between a wash tub and a spin tub.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Last night, Gerber continued her love affair with the do-everything, go-anywhere little black dress, wearing a knee-length slip beneath an oversized khaki trench.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Both sides have consequently dug legal and PR trenches to snipe at the other and rally endorsements.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026

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“Acequia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acequia. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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