causeway
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Illustrations from the era show Malinche, serving as translator, as a prominent figure during Cortés’ epochal meeting with Moctezuma on Nov. 8, 1519, on a causeway leading to Tenochtitlán.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
In Orkney, a flood warning in place for the Churchill Barriers causeway which connects the main island to the island of South Ronaldsay through Burray and the islands of Lamb Holm and Glimps Holm.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 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
So Toomer rose, limped to the other side of the wagon, mounted, shook the reins, and climbed the causeway leading to the bridge.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Across the causeways and located directly on the beach, Untitled had even more to enjoy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in the southeastern state of Campeche.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2024
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
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
In addition to building roads, causeways, canals, dikes, reservoirs, mounds, raised agricultural fields, and possibly ball courts, Erickson has argued, the Indians who lived there before Columbus trapped fish in the seasonally flooded grassland.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing causeway
Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires - Introductory
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Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires - Middle School and High School
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The Early Americas and European Exploration, Lessons 1–2
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