Thesaurus results for RAILWAYS

railways

noun

plural of railway

as in roads

a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel a system of railways that crisscrosses the whole nation

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Recent Examples of railways Russia’s constant attacks on factories, energy supply systems and the railways means that steel supply to the Ukrainian armed forces is also being degraded. — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026 Recent Russian targets have included energy systems, key industries, railways, post offices, shopping centers, telecom networks, gas stations and grain exports. — Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026 The collection reimagines Lee garments worn across America’s railways, ranches and rodeos from the 1920s to the 1940s through the creative lens of the late designer’s suiting label Ox’ed Silver. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 Recent targets have included energy systems, key industries, railways, post offices, shopping centers, telecom networks, gas stations and grain exports. — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 Rising sea levels with climate change are already inundating seaside roads, railways, and neighborhoods in California. — Justine Calma, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026 Uganda then had a large population of Indian immigrants, who had been brought over by the British at the end of the nineteenth century to help construct railways, and who eventually established more economic autonomy and power than Black Ugandans. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026 These have included arson, high-profile hacks, GPS jamming as well as sabotage actions against key infrastructure, including undersea communication cables, logistics centers and railways. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026 The city was also brimming with foreign workers living in camps in and around Dresden, who had been brought in to work on the railways since so many German men were off fighting. — Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026

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Most mountain roads should remain wet, but slick conditions are possible above 9,000 feet, especially after dark.

— Joe Ruch, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Critics also worried that an unplanned surge in housing could strain schools, roads and other infrastructure.

— Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026

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Blacks in the South were routinely imprisoned on petty or trumped-up charges, then leased out to landowners, mining companies, railroads and factories as unpaid labor.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
The economist William Nordhaus has shown that only two percent of the value created by innovations of the past, including railroads, airlines, and the Internet, went to the companies that built these networks.

— RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026

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