bridge

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Recent Examples of bridge Reeves also will build a new road along I-85 South to carry I-485 off-ramp traffic to I-85 South, and build a new bridge on Sam Wilson Road over the new road. Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025 Subban won the Norris Trophy that season, and, once that bridge deal expired, had an arbitration hearing. Arpon Basu, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 Among them are Gatlinburg SkyPark—home to North America's longest pedestrian cable bridge—and the aerial tram to Ober Mountain. Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025 The area became a dangerous crossing for hikers after the bridge at Rimrock Lake outlet was ruined in a 2022 flood, rescuers said. Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bridge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bridge
Noun
  • Most migrating birds depart in the evening, fly through the night, and land by sunrise.
    Brandi D. Addison, The Providence Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In a year when the question of universal freedom still feels contested, The Gettin’ lands as both memorial and mirror, recalling the losses named in 2014 and 2020 and implicating the present tense.
    Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On the other hand, overly wet soil can also impact flowering.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Gravel, clay, and sandy soils react very differently under sudden energy input, and the presence of water and air further alters behaviour.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • How to Get There The main air hub in the Maldives is Velana International Airport (MLE), located on the capital island of Malé.
    Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
  • A couple in their sixties, the oldest of the passengers, wearing camping backpacks and sun visors, declined many offers from men with four-wheelers who wanted to drive them to their hotel, as the island had no real cars.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But as the Department of Defense moved hundreds of men and children through CIA black sites and military bases across the Middle East and South Asia, that type of stateless, legal vacuousness did not exist on this earth’s surface.
    Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Nearly two-thirds of dysprosium and terbium, two key rare-earth elements, come from northern Myanmar.
    Dan Swift, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Definitive answers are slippery ground for men in his position.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Under the hopper of a massive grain bin, roughly 50,000 pounds of ground corn slide down a chute and into the truck’s open back.
    Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    Nik Popli, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • However, an air mass can sometimes block a storm, driving it north or northeast toward the Baja California peninsula and the west coast of Mexico.
    William B. Davis, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That could be caused by a buildup of dust, dirt and lint on the filter.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Even with the business reopening, owner Josh Copus is still running around, covered in dust and paint, either putting finishing touches on his building or helping fellow business owners.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Bridge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bridge. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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