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tideway

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as in torrent

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If not for the drone and rumble of multiple water pumps and torrent of water seeping through the sandbags and the buildings, Tuesday morning would have been a perfect time to visit the Fun Zone on the peninsula.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows?

— Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2026

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The water flow is being managed at Canton Lake, and the Corps of Engineers said the goal is to have between 600 and 730 cubic feet of water per second leave through sluice gates during the greatest period of flow.

— Dale Denwalt, Oklahoman, 22 Sep. 2026
Kids can dig for fossil replicas and pose for photos next to life-sized dinosaur statues, or pan for treasures in the sluice machine.

— Kristen Kidd, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2026

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The Johnson County Sheriff's Office received a call around noon of two persons in the water near the Coralville Reservoir spillway at the nature reserve, which is roughly eight and a half miles north of Iowa City.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
The sheriff’s office said deputies responded shortly after noon Tuesday to a report of people in the water at Lake Macbride State Park near the Coralville Reservoir spillway.

— Kelsie Cairns , Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of spillway

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Wilson’s New Freedom would open the sluiceways of competition by slashing tariffs, strengthening anti-trust laws and increasing access to credit.

— 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

Definition of sluiceway

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The hotel is situated in a floodway, which limits construction for safety purposes, so since 1993 the site’s various owners haven’t been able to build anew; renovating ad infinitum has proven to be just dandy though.

— Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
This 59,000-acre floodway carries the river’s excess past the state capital.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of floodway

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Rail, river, and air traffic near the facility were restricted, according to a statement from site officials.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Introduced to Virginia rivers decades ago, the fish have proved able to tolerate the saltier waters of the bay and are now outcompeting native species.

— Tovar Cerulli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026

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