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Roosevelt was intrigued by the military and commercial possibilities of a canal across the isthmus, cutting 8,000 miles off a New York-San Francisco voyage.

From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026

Paterson persuaded the Scottish parliament to establish a new enterprise based on England’s East India Company to found a Scottish colony on the narrow isthmus joining North and South America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

The Tehuana dress — originating among Zapotec women on the isthmus — was famously adopted by Frida Kahlo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

It is known as the 'gap' on Panama's Darien isthmus because it is the only missing section, running about 60 miles, on the Pan-American highway that stretches from Alaska to Argentina.

From Reuters ● Jul. 22, 2023

Torchbearers, dressed in traditional Montenegrin costume—loose-fitting white pants and shirt and a colorful green vest—lined the isthmus leading out to a well-appointed hotel called the Maestral, which had once been a thirteenth-century medieval fort.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The Crimean Peninsula extends south from Ukraine’s mainland, with road connections on two isthmuses, one of which is less than 1 mile wide, and by a bridge from a narrow spit.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

Nay, we ought to feel some shame when we reflect that evidences in the neighborhood of both isthmuses exist of such junction having existed, in what we are pleased to designate "barbarous" ages.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

Pod 1° long, with linear stalk, containing many seeds separated by filamentous isthmuses.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas

These two isthmuses in the eastern and western hemispheres have some obvious features in common.

From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by J. Saxon Mills

In the first place it was agreed that any canal to be constructed over any of the isthmuses was to be absolutely neutral, in time of war as well as of peace.

From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Carl Russell Fish