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watercourse

noun

ˈwȯ-tər-ˌkȯrs

Definition of watercourse

as in canal

an open man-made passageway for water the Erie Canal was the first watercourse to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes

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Recent Examples of watercourse The flash floods battered regions like Barrio de la Torre in Valencia, where narrow streets became lethal watercourses. — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024 The Marin Municipal Water District completed Kent Lake in 1954 by enlarging a section of Lagunitas Creek’s watercourse and damming the creek’s flow. — Jim Holden, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024 The salmon were meant to be released in the Imnaha River, a 77-mile long watercourse in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024 And though the trickle of data from watercourses could be logged for much longer, that longevity came with risks. — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2015 See All Example Sentences for watercourse

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The agency’s testing identified cyclospora in two samples taken from a canal that the farm used for irrigation.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
The Ada County Coroner’s Office has identified the man killed in a police shooting Thursday near a canal and gas station at the South Cloverdale and West Overland roads intersection in Boise.

— Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 24 July 2026

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Roughly half the farm receives water from Northern California via a vast system of aqueducts.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
These properties have enabled the likes of the Pantheon, ancient Roman aqueducts, and even parts of the Colosseum to survive two millennia, while some Brutalist buildings from the 1960s that were made from modern concrete are crumbling.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026

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