Thesaurus results for CANALS

canals

noun

plural of canal

as in aqueducts

an open man-made passageway for water the Panama Canal opened a much easier and shorter passageway from the Atlantic to the Pacific

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Recent Examples of canals The mussels’ tiny larvae have drifted down canals and aqueducts of the State Water Project and have been detected as far south as Bakersfield, Los Angeles and San Diego counties. —

Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 May 2026 No doubt the collectors are staying at the Hotel Cipriani on Giudecca, which make up for the inconvenience of leaving the vicinity of San Marco with the unparalleled luxury and complete insulation from the masses crawling over the canals. —

Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 5 May 2026 Others can’t navigate the smaller canals at all. —

Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 May 2026 The tour kicked off in Milan last month, where the boat navigated the Navigli canals from April 21 to 26, coinciding with Design Week. —

Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 May 2026 Many downtown streets were once canals, a tradition that continues in the rural fringes. —

Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026 During this time, alligators can become more active, especially near lakes, ponds, canals and other bodies of water. —

Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026 Existing pump stations are no longer connected to injection wells and are instead directed to Biscayne Bay and some surrounding canals. —

Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026 Strange New Worlds stars Celia Rose Gooding, Ethan Peck, Rebecca Romijn, and Paul Wesley visit the Xochimilco canals while promoting the show in Xochimilco, Mexico, on April 24. —

Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for canals

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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.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
Initiatives include water desalination and underground aqueducts powered by clean energy, plus steam plants supplying electricity.

— Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026