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floodgate

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as in sluice

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Recent Examples of floodgate Hilary Crowley, a county spokeswoman, said a $100 million floodgate completed in 2024 has been infested with the relentless mollusks, requiring an expensive removal. — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 May 2026 The floodgate will require an expensive removal of the mussels. — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 May 2026 As Operation Clown Dump illustrated, the first, and maybe biggest, floodgate exists at the distribution level. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026 For example, a Florida canal gate control system uses radar level sensors on each side of a floodgate, feeding a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) controller that automatically adjusts the gate to balance canal and tidal flows. — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for floodgate

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Dam Removal Europe found that the number of dams dismantled in 2025, along with other water-flow controls like weirs, culverts and sluices, grew by 11% from the year before.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 3 June 2026
The archways are furnished with sluice gates that can open to allow excess water to pass through in periods of flooding.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026

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In France, youth sports are heavily subsidized by local municipalities and community groups, substantially lowering the barrier for entry.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
In an era where youth sports can cost parents thousands of dollars, a new no-cost league in the historic Northeast neighborhoods launched by the Kansas City Current aims to break down the financial barrier.

— PJ Green July 11, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2026

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Russia has unleashed waves of missile and drone attacks on Kyiv in recent months, including a barrage of strikes on Monday.

— Elise Spenner, ABC News, 9 July 2026
If Clase’s home run in the second was an uppercut, then Toronto’s offense in the third was a barrage of jabs.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

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Removing the weir will lower the entire lagoon’s water level by several feet and restore the ebb and flow of ocean tides to the basin.

— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026
Known as Big John, the man was fined and forced to dismantle his traditional fish weir or risk imprisonment after he was reported for fishing outside of the reservation.

— Aubrey Violeta Gelpieryn, CBS News, 30 May 2026

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Revolutionaries Never Die was awarded the top prize for best project in post-production at the 2025 Cairo Film Connection and was presented at picture lock at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra 2026.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 July 2026
In one rare path, where a lock operation hits a dead end and has to back out, the cleanup runs at the wrong moment and wipes the wrong task’s record.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026

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