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Recent Examples of sluiceway
Wilson’s New Freedom would open the sluiceways of competition by slashing tariffs, strengthening anti-trust laws and increasing access to credit.
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Richard Norton Smith,
WSJ,
19 Apr. 2018
The town has opened the floodgate to the dam draining the pond behind it and allowing Roaring Brook to flow freely downstream through a sluiceway.
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Peter Marteka,
Courant Community,
12 Apr. 2018
However, the sluiceways were sealed years ago after a child became trapped in one and drowned.
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Joshua Emerson Smith,
latimes.com,
15 Dec. 2017
Richard Norton Smith,
WSJ,
19 Apr. 2018
The town has opened the floodgate to the dam draining the pond behind it and allowing Roaring Brook to flow freely downstream through a sluiceway.
—
Peter Marteka,
Courant Community,
12 Apr. 2018
However, the sluiceways were sealed years ago after a child became trapped in one and drowned.
—
Joshua Emerson Smith,
latimes.com,
15 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sluiceway
Noun
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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.
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The archways are furnished with sluice gates that can open to allow excess water to pass through in periods of flooding.
Noun
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The largest among them, the Hardy Dam on the Muskegon River, needs a multi-hundred-million-dollar spillway upgrade to comply with modern flood safety standards.
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Jurado said that pollution and turbidity in the spillway discharge is a concern, too.
Noun
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The closest the data center would be to Weston Gardens is 370 feet, said Riley, due to a wooded floodway and floodplain between the Black Mountain property and Weston’s.
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Call it resilience, call it infrastructure, call it economic development—just build it before the next 8-year-old goes to sleep in a floodway.
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“Sluiceway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sluiceway. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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