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canal

[kuh-nal] / kəˈnæl /


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Because the treatment needs to reach the central nervous system, it is administered through an injection into the spinal canal.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

We cast off and turned into the narrow canal, lined with private docks and boat lifts—a No Wake zone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Brentford Community Boathouse events officer Kelly Everden, who volunteered on a clean-up operation organised by Keane, said the children who used the canal were worst affected.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Thidarat Silsuwan, 56, lives alone in her partially submerged house along the Premprachakorn canal.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

On the other side of the canal there are ponds flanked with poplars;—on the other side of the canal there are women too.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Meanwhile, security and environmental challenges along the Suez and Panama canals are directing more shipments through Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

He traveled as a private citizen, rather than a politician, reveling in the region’s splendors, its ruins and estates, gardens and canals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The city is built on former marshlands and is intersected by a network of canals, many of them heavily flooded by the rains.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

People have been urged to stay at home and those living close to the city's network of canals have been advised to move their belongings to upper floors.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

He achieved such astonishing speed records that he was promoted to superintendent, and then went into the contracting business for himself, building bridges, canals, industrial towns, and factories.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

The warmth at his heart annulled whatever of chill stole in at the grayness of the canaled streets of the northern city after the color and glow of Porto.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Hindu temples, for the many Guyanese descended from laborers from the Indian subcontinent, dot Georgetown’s canalled streets.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2010

And he should never be blocked in: he should at most be canalled.

From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett

When I got old enough, and had money enough, I was determined to go west and seek my fortune; for I always felt that canalling was, somehow, beneath what I wanted to do and become.

From Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick

Those of the latter are more generally found about our large towns and cities, and along the lines of canalling.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck

The spirit of improvement throughout the United States, especially evidenced in canalling, and rail-roads, will, it is hoped, in a few years, open modes of communication, which as yet are wanting, with the markets.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck

The stern part was taken down the long upper level by a small tug, but teams were employed in towing for all the remaining portions of the canalling.

From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland

The canalling is managed by a Board of Commissioners.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck


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