bridges

plural of bridge

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Recent Examples of bridges 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
Noun
  • The movie takes place entirely on a big rural estate, whose lands include a vineyard.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Futures and prediction markets imply that by early 2026 the policy rate lands modestly lower than today but not back to the zero-rate world.
    Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While experts aren’t sure exactly when the tomatoes arrived on the younger islands, the plant’s evolution had to have happened within the last half million years, since that’s around the time the youngest islands first emerged, Jozwiak said.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The country, vulnerable to natural disasters and any significant rainfall, has now had more than a week of rain and is expected to see more when Melissa, which battered Cuba as well on Wednesday, moves into the southern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This World Cup, held on home soil, represents both a golden opportunity and a defining moment for Mexican football.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The team excavated several key places on the site, studied cores of soil and conducted an additional LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, survey of the area.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • When two parties are aware of a major issue that diminishes an asset and do not inform the third party of that asset, that’s strong grounds for a lawsuit.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The neighborhood’s first hotel, Bay View Inn, once sat on the park’s grounds, but today visitors will find plenty of opportunities for recreation across its nine acres, and a boardwalk that overlooks Biscayne Bay.
    Susan B. Barnes, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Kitchens require constant cleaning, as dust and grease build up on cabinet tops.
    Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Unfortunately, curtains can gather a lot of dust, mold, or dirt if not cleaned every so often, and can lead to allergies and an unhygienic home.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • North Country National Scenic Trail spans eight states, including more than 1,100 miles in Michigan through urban and rural areas in the upper and lower peninsulas.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though the Earth has blown holes in itself.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even leaving these facts aside, neither the doctrinaire socialism nor militant Islam have ever improved any place on earth, and New York City will not be the first.
    Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The earth opened and swallowed my father, literally.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025

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“Bridges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bridges. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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