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causeway

[kawz-way] / ˈkɔzˌweɪ /
NOUN
dike/dyke
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NOUN
embankment
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Dave Shaw, 37, of Dave’s Walks has silently led me on languid explorations of the United Kingdom; across the cobblestone causeway to Cornwall’s St. Michael’s Mount, and along the clifftops of North Devon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

At the Auckland Outboard Boating Club, members were having a Wednesday-night drink when one of them noticed a Zodiac lying abandoned on the causeway.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

What was once Great Britain is now a quarantined island, cut off from the mainland and protected by an armed causeway that can only be accessed during low tide.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2025

The tide recedes every day for a few hours, long enough to walk across a narrow strip of causeway to the mainland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

I stand on the causeway, frozen with fear.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

With majestic temples, markets and pyramids linked by canals and causeways, Tenochtitlan was home at its peak to some 200,000 people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Television’s Memory Lane has as many versions as there are Atlanta streets named Peachtree, with only a few of those causeways seeing heavy traffic.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023

It was a massive island city with large causeways that connected it to the shores of the lake.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Still, in a crisis, China’s People’s Liberation Army could attempt a chancy gambit like offloading amphibious vehicles from the ferries at sea or using floating causeways, Dahm said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

Even when Indians built causeways, not all mounds are connected to each other, a fact Erickson was hoping to use to decipher the relations between groups.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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