bridges

noun

Definition of bridgesnext
plural of bridge
as in lands

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Recent Examples of bridges Girard-Perregaux Minute Repeater Flying bridges Girard-Perregaux’s new caliber GP9530 is an automatic minute repeater and tourbillon, interpreted here with the third bridge of GP’s iconic movement positioned on the caseback. — Carol Besler, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026 Milwaukee's older bridges, though, are in better shape than the average Wisconsin bridge built the same decade, the report says. — Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bridges
  1. lands
  2. islands
  3. soil
  4. grounds
  5. dust
  6. peninsulas
  7. earth
Noun
  • The first is deliberately short and lands beneath Haaland’s centre of mass, essentially the point around which his weight is balanced.
    — Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The quantization pass that follows commonly lands around four or five bits per weight, though many formats exist, and presets rather than manual tuning decide which tensors keep higher precision.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of lands
Noun
  • Brown loved her summers on an island off the coast of Maine nearly as much as the Finnish-Swedish Tove Jannson, creator of the Moomin stories, loved her time in the islands off the Swedish coast.
    — Anne E. Fernald, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The Hibiscus Island home set a new price record for Hibiscus and Palm islands, two affluent manmade islands just off the MacArthur Causeway.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of islands
Noun
  • Officials had to reset Buffalo’s play clock in the first quarter so umpire Tab Slaughter could smash down loose soil in the backfield.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Add the impacts of climate change, which have resulted in warmer springs and drier soils that reduce runoff into the reservoirs, and average or above-average rainfall no longer guarantees equivalent runoff.
    — Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of soil
Noun
  • Immediately after his plea, Mangione’s lawyers filed paperwork seeking to have the state case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • State prosecutors have accused Mangione’s lawyers of trying to get that case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds under New York State law, which says a defendant can’t be tried twice for the same crime.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of grounds
Noun
  • And in a bedroom, tucked behind the door and covered in dust, hung a nondescript print in a black and brown frame.
    — Cole Reynolds, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Videos posted to social media showed buildings collapsing and panicked residents running and screaming, as dust filled the sky.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of dust
Noun
  • The bridge stretches for 5 miles, traversing the Straits of Mackinac to link Michigan’s Upper and Lower peninsulas.
    — Hannah Agran, Midwest Living, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The island is already home to Discovery Land Company’s Barbuda Ocean Club, which encompasses 900 acres across the western and southern peninsulas of Coco Point and Palmetto Point.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
Definition of peninsulas
Noun
  • Large flower arrangements lie on the pile of earth; a traditional embroidered cloth drapes over the cross.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Above ground, others work in open pits, digging through and sorting earth in search of gold.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of earth

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