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waterways

noun

plural of waterway

as in canals

an open man-made passageway for water the Erie Canal was superseded by a much larger waterway, the New York State Barge Canal

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Recent Examples of waterways Jones also questioned whether enough money is being directed toward protecting local waterways. — Nina Burns, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026 Its main street is lined with shops selling handblown glass and cozy knits, and colorful boats bob along its winding waterways. — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026 State officials said the additional money will support boat inspections, decontamination, monitoring and other measures intended to prevent the mussels from reaching new waterways. — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026 The other two organizations focus on protecting waterways and aquatic ecosystems, including the Harpeth River, where Janson lives. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 Torrential rain has pushed all three waterways higher for days, spilling them over their banks in northeastern Argentina, southern Paraguay and western Uruguay. — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026 The genre gave him considerably more freedom to invent architectural settings, mixing classical ruins, waterways, and figures into elaborate imaginary landscapes. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

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The canals and the first phase of Panther Island development can proceed independently of the bypass channel, according to that TRWD document.

— Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2026
Near hole 12 is a South Florida Water Management District flood control barrier, one of several structures installed in the mouths of canals in Miami-Dade and Broward to let water flow out to Biscayne Bay.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026

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From there, two major aqueducts, the Lower Aqueduct and the Upper Aqueduct, carried water toward Jerusalem – a distance of more than 20 kilometers (12 miles).

— Michele Chabin, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
In antiquity, Rome’s aqueducts and China’s canals and flood-control works were the pipelines of centuries of hegemony.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

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