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causeway

[kawz-way] / ˈkɔzˌweɪ /
NOUN
dike/dyke
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NOUN
embankment
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It being a little early for blackjack at the towering Beau Rivage, where I’d booked a room for the night, I instead crossed the causeway to nearby Ocean Springs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

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 tide recedes every day for a few hours, long enough to walk across a narrow strip of causeway to the mainland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

He drove past Slater Park and across the causeway and past Sunset Park.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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

He is among the 400,000 people expected to cram the causeways, beaches and motel balconies of Florida's Space Coast for the launch attempt of Artemis II tonight.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 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

The causeways connecting the island to the mainland were strewn with palm fronds, pine needles and even a kayak retrieved from a nearby shoreline.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 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




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