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causeway

[kawz-way] / ˈkɔzˌweɪ /
NOUN
dike/dyke
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NOUN
embankment
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A causeway was created so people could access the island and church.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

Dave Shaw, 37, of Dave’s Walks has silently led me on languid explorations of the United Kingdom; across the cobblestone causeway to Cornwall’s St. Michael’s Mount, and along the clifftops of North Devon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 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

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

Along the causeway, the two little boys marched on.

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

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

The chairman held commands in both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division, and the Normandy fields, towns and causeways are these divisions’ hallowed ground.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

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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