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as in route
an established course for traveling from one place to another
the long passage down the Atlantic seaboard, around Cape Horn, and up the Pacific Coast to California
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2
as in trip
a going from one place to another usually of some distance
an arduous passage across the country
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4
as in excerpt
a part taken from a longer work
the news report quoted a passage from the novel
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as in process
forward movement in time or place
a swift passage from mere liking to actual love
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as in death
the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities
weary of this world, he looked forward to the next and sought passage with poison
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Recent Examples of passage
But the high rate of passage is also due to how the ballot process is manipulated.
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Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
The remaining six bills passed the House earlier this month and were grouped together for passage in the Senate.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
Lawmakers must reach a 60-vote threshold, meaning Republicans typically need at least seven Democrats to move it toward final passage.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
Lawmakers are now scrambling to avert another shutdown, with Friday the latest deadline for the passage of a new funding bill.
—Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
The remaining six bills passed the House earlier this month and were grouped together for passage in the Senate.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
Lawmakers must reach a 60-vote threshold, meaning Republicans typically need at least seven Democrats to move it toward final passage.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
Lawmakers are now scrambling to avert another shutdown, with Friday the latest deadline for the passage of a new funding bill.
—Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for passage
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Earlier this week the mayor urged Philadelphia residents to move their cars out of snow emergency routes.—
Tom Dougherty,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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User @briadeshaun took a more relatable route and impersonated an out-of-shape owl, worn out from flying and repeatedly panting to catch its breath.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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Gemini can now pull context from emails, schedules, and travel searches to help users plan trips, draft messages, or find relevant information faster.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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And in a scientific article that was just published in late 2025, it was incidentally caught during a recreational fishing trip off the coast of northwestern Africa.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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First-timers may be surprised to learn that not everything is included on their voyage.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
28 Jan. 2026
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This was a place where other Asians also found a home, notably lascars from India and East Africa, and ayahs abandoned by their English employers after the long sea voyage.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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This is an excerpt from Monday’s Access Panthers newsletter.—
Mike Kaye
January 27,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Jan. 2026
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An excerpt from our conversation is later in this newsletter.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Much of our concern about climate change and reproduction is rooted in the idea that reproduction is one of the first processes to fail under stress.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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However, not everyone agrees that price discovery - the process of establishing a market price at which demand and supply for an item are matched - has collapsed altogether.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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The preliminary cause of death was multiple sharp-force injuries.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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He was condemned for the April 1998 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Glenda Dennise Hayslip, 39, and her new boyfriend, Darren Keith Cain, 30, at the woman's suburban Houston apartment.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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Investing in domestic mining is necessary but insufficient—recycling infrastructure offers a faster, less geopolitically fraught path to supply chain resilience that has historically been overlooked by previous administrations.—
Kristen Edgreen Kaufman,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Buddhist temple was directly in the path of the project, threatening its displacement.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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This year, Lindblad Expeditions marks the 60th anniversary of Lars Eric Lindblad’s first civilian expedition to Antarctica, the journey that helped define modern expedition travel.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The Dutch West India Company had sponsored an expedition to search for a southern continent, which was thought necessary to balance all the land north of the equator.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passage. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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