as in canals
an open man-made passageway for water
marveled at the ancient Roman aqueducts that still carry water to distant villages
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Recent Examples of aqueducts
The tunnel would create a second route to transport water from new intakes on the Sacramento River to the south side of the Delta, where pumps send water into the aqueducts of the State Water Project.
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Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Workers excavated parts of the route with explosives and built locks and aqueducts along 363 miles of canal.
—JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025
Completed eight years later, the canal stretched some 363 miles (584 kilometers), with 18 aqueducts and 83 locks to compensate for elevation changes en route.
—Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
For millennia, qanats—ingenious underground aqueducts—balanced survival with scarcity across the central plateau of Iran.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
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
Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Workers excavated parts of the route with explosives and built locks and aqueducts along 363 miles of canal.
—JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025
Completed eight years later, the canal stretched some 363 miles (584 kilometers), with 18 aqueducts and 83 locks to compensate for elevation changes en route.
—Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
For millennia, qanats—ingenious underground aqueducts—balanced survival with scarcity across the central plateau of Iran.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aqueducts
canals
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Four Seasons Resort and Residences Puerto Rico Expansive rain gardens, nature trails, lakes, and canals create an out-of-the-ordinary resort feel.—
Amber Kallor,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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The watershed also is situated on relatively flat, low-lying and porous terrain, enabling higher tides to penetrate deeper into the freshwater marshes through the vast network of canals that holds the watershed together.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Aqueducts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aqueducts. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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