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 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 Living in White Plains, N.Y., in the 1980s, Mrs. Wallace galvanized a broad campaign to rescue the river, at the time an inaccessible 23-mile watercourse that was home to more flotsam, like the carcasses of junked cars and rusted refrigerators, than fauna. Sam Roberts, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 The Miami River, the five-mile watercourse that flows from Miami International Airport down to Biscayne Bay, also holds many chapters of Miami’s history on its banks. Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024 Recently surging watercourses have mellowed to tenable levels. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for watercourse
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Noun
  • Under pressure, a Hong Kong company sold off its two port facilities on the canal, drawing criticism from Beijing.
    Chris Buckley, New York Times, 13 May 2025
  • With around 800 miles of rivers and canals, Burgundy has the largest network of inland waterways in France.
    Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Daniel: Not just anyone can go wade waist-deep in aqueduct water.
    Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
  • Austin leads Craig on a late-night adventure through a twisty-turny aqueduct, ending up, illegally, in city hall after-hours.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 May 2025

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“Watercourse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/watercourse. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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