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canal

[kuh-nal] / kəˈnæl /


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"If we don't manage to fill the lakes in November, we're going to have to tighten our belts," former canal administrator Jorge Quijano told AFP.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Paramedics were called and continued treatment at the canal side before taking the man to a central London hospital.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

The canal loses 50 million gallons of water whenever a ship passes through, and is replenished by Lake Gatún, its main reservoir.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

The station is cooled from a canal connected to the North Sea.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

One was that the government planned to build a canal into the great swamp called the Sudd.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau

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

These are the standard ingredients of bubbles from canals and railroads to the Great British Bicycle Bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Howles, who is not a boater but describes herself as a canal lover, said both existing canals and those being restored needed protection.

From BBC Aug. 1, 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

They each took an oar and paddled out to join the bustling traffic on one of the main canals.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

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

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

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

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

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




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