canal
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The lucrative opportunity that Driver’s Gary is dangling in front of his brother is dazzling — and clearly suspect from the late-night canal visits to the sizable paycheck for doing comparatively nothing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
The canal relies on water stored in two reservoirs to function, and low levels forced authorities to reduce the number of daily transits from 36 to 32 in September.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
In 1869, the year the canal opened, he made a trip to Cairo to show his sketches to Isma’il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
It appears the man may have entered the pipe from a canal that runs along the train tracks near Commerce and Cottage streets in Riverside, Hallgreen said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
The courtyard turned out to be a pier overlooking a dark canal.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Bas had planned a scenic route to the hospice, taking in Friesland's meadows and canals.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
The study, titled "Heme signatures in mineralized red blood cells within vascular canals of a 115- million-year-old dinosaur bone," was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Much of it flows through the Central Arizona Project, the series of canals that run from the river to the Phoenix and Tucson areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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
They passed through the squares, crossing bridges over the moonlit canals in the dark.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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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
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
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
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
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
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