tideway

Definition of tidewaynext

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Noun
  • After Bores entered the race, super PACs tied to investors in ChatGPT maker OpenAI unleashed a torrent of spending aimed at torpedoing his campaign.
    Eric McDaniel, NPR, 22 June 2026
  • After applying steady pressure against Haiti in the opening minutes, Brazil broke through with an offensive torrent.
    CBS News, CBS News, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • 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.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 3 June 2026
  • The archways are furnished with sluice gates that can open to allow excess water to pass through in periods of flooding.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • 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.
    CBS News, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Jurado said that pollution and turbidity in the spillway discharge is a concern, too.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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.
    Daniel Lehewych, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the fact that its concrete design is intended to whisk water out of the city as fast as possible, life stubbornly persists in the river and nearby.
    Mack Baysinger Follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
  • But the rhenium that was bound to the organic carbon gets washed through rivers into the ocean, where it is incorporated into new seabed sediments.
    Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
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“Tideway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tideway. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.

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