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
  • Venus enters Libra on August 6, which usually paves the way for a pleasing journey through foreign lands (and doubles your odds of finding romance abroad).
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026
  • Thirty four major fires are burning largely on public range lands from near Bend, east of the Cascade Mountains to the Idaho state line.
    — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 29 July 2026
Definition of lands
Noun
  • Simultaneously, China was causing tremendous environmental damage by building artificial islands elsewhere in the EEZs of the Philippines and other neighbors.
    — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
  • Dotted with small islands, the area is prime territory for smugglers of drugs, guns and people.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026
Definition of islands
Noun
  • Tszyu has never lost on home soil, and this is his middleweight debut in front of a Sydney crowd.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • His extradition shortly after leaving office marked a rare chance at justice for Hondurans, who feared his hold on the country's justice system would never allow a conviction on Honduran soil.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026
Definition of soil
Noun
  • Beauty, wellness and fitness became early proving grounds because their products naturally fit into creators’ everyday content.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 24 July 2026
  • The house, built in 1999, has become one of the show’s most recognizable filming locations, thanks to its expansive grounds and grand interiors.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 July 2026
Definition of grounds
Noun
  • The nova also spawned a thick disc of dust that completely obscured the binary star system.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 July 2026
  • William Burgos and Nathaniel Warner, professors of environmental engineering at Penn State, have spent years testing whether oil and gas brine actually works as a road dust suppressant.
    — Nathaniel Warner, The Conversation, 24 July 2026
Definition of dust
Noun
  • 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
  • Key sections include the northern Kullaleden and Bjäre peninsulas and the coastal Österlen Way in the east — a quieter alternative to the more popular Stockholm Archipelago routes.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
Definition of peninsulas
Noun
  • Luca Bindi, an earth scientist at the University of Florence in Italy, found the alloy while collecting microscopic debris from along the beaches of Hiroshima Bay.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
  • At the base, blueberry shrubs have multiple canes (or branches) that grow directly out of the earth in clumps.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 28 July 2026
Definition of earth

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