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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elevated railroads
Noun
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Electric telegraph lines and railroads encouraged and were encouraged by a new age of imperial expansion, commodity extraction, industrialization, urban growth, global migration, rising population, and scientific development, among other things.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025 -
By the late 1800s, with railroads, threshing machines, large slaughterhouses and steamships with refrigeration, Argentina exported vast quantities of wheat and beef to England.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
26 Oct. 2025
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The floods have also left 11 people missing, inundated more than 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, and damaged roads and railways, cutting off traffic and power in several areas, the government’s disaster agency said in a report.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement While Beijing is laser focused on ports, pipelines, and railways, the type of capacity-building engagement long characterized by USAID isn’t part of their strategy.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Elevated railroads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elevated%20railroads. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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