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canal

[kuh-nal] / kəˈnæl /


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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

His surviving notes capture ordinary moments from daily life, including records of how much he spent on food for his children along the canal.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

But the number of crossings was recently reduced by canal authorities because of the emerging El Niño.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

During the summer of 1848, at the age of sixteen, James went to work on his older cousin's boat on the canal that connected Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said on social media Sunday that several roads remained flooded and water levels in the city's canals were still high, but authorities were working to speed up drainage.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The state also helped local agencies bring in diesel-powered pumps and other equipment to suck water out of rivers and into canals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

The rain is expected to continue into Sunday, raising fears that more canals could burst their banks.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads, and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

It reminds me of the green water of the mangrove canals near Lita’s childhood home in Tulum, the most peaceful place on Earth.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

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

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

We had a good deal of difficulty at first in our canalling, especially in meeting and passing vessels.

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

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




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