canal
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A marine engineer by training, she started working at the canal in 1985 when it was controlled by the United States.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific handles around 40 percent of US container traffic.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Espino de Marotta: It’s a good business and it will help diversify the canal revenues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Officers and members of the public entered the canal to pull him from the water and he was rushed to a central London hospital, where he was pronounced dead at about 16:40.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
By the 1850s, the canal and the railroads were drawing a throng of new businesses to Chicago.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Cloaked in toxic haze that can burn years off a person's lifespan, volunteers have been digging ponds, canals and borewells through bone-dry peat in a desperate attempt to keep their hoses tapped.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Projects have included blocking irrigation canals to help restore wetlands, strengthening firefighting capabilities, and stepping up efforts to prevent accidental human ignitions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
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
By contrast, canals such as Panama or Suez, which are man‑made waterways, may be subject to tolls levied by the states that control them.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Hadn’t they said on the news a few years ago that strange signals were coming from Mars and that it had canals?
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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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
The system of canalling is a system of slack-water navigation, but abhors stagnant water.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson
Indeed, I never can believe I am at sea at all, on the Atlantic, the passages between New-York and Portsmouth being little more than so much canalling along a tow-path.
From Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper
It consists of canalling, improving river navigation, rail-roads, and common turnpike roads.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
The canalling is managed by a Board of Commissioners.
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
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