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causeway

[kawz-way] / ˈkɔzˌweɪ /
NOUN
dike/dyke
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NOUN
embankment
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AI software was used to analyse commercially available drone footage of crowds at the causeway, which is near Bushmills, County Antrim.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

The result is a 2,700-foot causeway where ferries or civilian cargo ships could pull up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

At the Auckland Outboard Boating Club, members were having a Wednesday-night drink when one of them noticed a Zodiac lying abandoned on the causeway.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

What was once Great Britain is now a quarantined island, cut off from the mainland and protected by an armed causeway that can only be accessed during low tide.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2025

The magnificent Pharos lighthouse guided ships into the Great Harbor on the east side of the causeway and the Harbor of Good Return on the west.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

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

Television’s Memory Lane has as many versions as there are Atlanta streets named Peachtree, with only a few of those causeways seeing heavy traffic.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023

It was a massive island city with large causeways that connected it to the shores of the lake.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Still, in a crisis, China’s People’s Liberation Army could attempt a chancy gambit like offloading amphibious vehicles from the ferries at sea or using floating causeways, Dahm said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

On the ground beneath as the journey begins are the causeways and canals one sees today, except that they are now in good repair and full of people.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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