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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

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

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

I turn my head, sand clogging my nose and my mouth, and I see Marmeluc, on his knees on the causeway, pulling me toward him.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

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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