as in levees
a bank of earth constructed to control water
the embankment is steep, so be careful walking along the ridge
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Recent Examples of embankments
Family, friends and spectators line the embankments, looking down from pedestrian bridges and the underpasses, holding up signs and cheering.
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George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Scruton and his team had a weekend to remove the trees, mud, dirt and embankments.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Already, the High-Speed Rail Authority, which has been building the embankments, bridges, tunnels and grade separations needed for the train over the last decade, like an overpass just completed in Fresno, has begun ordering steel and other materials needed to finally begin laying tracks.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Scruton and his team had a weekend to remove the trees, mud, dirt and embankments.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Already, the High-Speed Rail Authority, which has been building the embankments, bridges, tunnels and grade separations needed for the train over the last decade, like an overpass just completed in Fresno, has begun ordering steel and other materials needed to finally begin laying tracks.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embankments
Noun
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As levees erupted, storm waters easily flowed in.—
Suzette Hackney,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Although more expensive and labor-intensive, the practice replaces much of the Central Valley’s roughly 500,000 acres of rice with temporary wetlands during the winter, a semblance of how the land would naturally function without dams, and levees and civilization.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Although more expensive and labor-intensive, the practice replaces much of the Central Valley’s roughly 500,000 acres of rice with temporary wetlands during the winter, a semblance of how the land would naturally function without dams, and levees and civilization.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Shortly after the last of the dams was removed, freeing the Klamath's free flow in late 2024, the salmon that naysayers said would take years to journey past the old reservoirs appeared upstream almost overnight.—
Debra Utacia Krol,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Embankments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embankments. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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