racecourses

noun

plural of racecourse
as in canals
an open man-made passageway for water fell into the racecourse for an abandoned water mill

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Recent Examples of racecourses Upstairs at Sperm Racing HQ is a lab stocked with racks of test tubes, centrifuges for separating out the most motile sperm from a sample, and little plastic slides containing new microscopic racecourses for frat-boy cum. — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 Andretti offers multiple activities, but its main attractions are the massive racecourses. — Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025
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  1. canals
  2. aqueducts
Noun
  • If time is tighter, the Prague Venice River Cruise lasts 45 minutes and takes you off the river and into the canals.
    — Jaymi McCann, TheWeek, 21 July 2026
  • The festival is held annually to celebrate the end of an outbreak of the plague in 1576 and is attended by thousands of people in boats and on the city’s canals, culminating in a fireworks show over the city.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Definition of canals
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  • Roughly half the farm receives water from Northern California via a vast system of aqueducts.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
  • These properties have enabled the likes of the Pantheon, ancient Roman aqueducts, and even parts of the Colosseum to survive two millennia, while some Brutalist buildings from the 1960s that were made from modern concrete are crumbling.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026
Definition of aqueducts

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