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Recent Examples of railway
From this point until mid-May, the railway carries visitors to a lower point, Waumbek Station at 4,000 feet, instead of continuing to the summit.
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Owen Clarke, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
Mellon founded Guilford Transportation Industries, a railway company, that acquired several others.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
The alleged attacks have included blazes at a shopping mall in Poland and an Ikea store in Lithuania, cyberattacks on Czech railways, and the vandalism of Jewish buildings in France.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
In the 1920s, Margery Crandon, the wife of a prominent Boston surgeon, was visited in séances by her brother Walter, who had died in a railway accident at age twenty-eight.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Owen Clarke, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
Mellon founded Guilford Transportation Industries, a railway company, that acquired several others.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
The alleged attacks have included blazes at a shopping mall in Poland and an Ikea store in Lithuania, cyberattacks on Czech railways, and the vandalism of Jewish buildings in France.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
In the 1920s, Margery Crandon, the wife of a prominent Boston surgeon, was visited in séances by her brother Walter, who had died in a railway accident at age twenty-eight.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for railway
Noun
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A day when the Stanley Cup years finally ride the synaptic road back to long-term memory and the brain finally bumps the past for the present.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
31 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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The tracks Brightline trains run on were already the deadliest stretch of railroad in the nation in the 1980s and ‘90s, long before Brightline began running on them, according to federal data.—
Daniel Rivero,
Miami Herald,
30 Oct. 2025
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With an energetic local fanbase, the busyness belies its location — near railroad tracks and a dusty surface parking lot.—
Kathryn Streeter,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Railway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railway. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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