passageway
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Finally, they had to dig a passageway, "a tiny tunnel the size of a person", through the debris at the top of the tunnel.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Iran kept the Strait of Hormuz—once the passageway for 20% of the world’s crude oil—effectively closed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Prabowo said on Monday that Indonesia and Singapore "have an interest in keeping the Strait of Malacca as a free passageway".
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Vance said Monday that the American expectation is the passageway will be “opened in a toll-free way for the long term.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
Alex was standing in a metal passageway leading to a tangle of pipes and cylinders, like the boiler room of a ship.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
Five years later, Madison Square Garden was planted atop it, banishing sunlight and driving commuters into a subterranean maze of passageways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Footage shared by the rescuers showed cave divers crawling through narrow, muddy passageways that were almost completely flooded.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
The move could bring some barrels back into circulation relatively quickly as one of the world’s major maritime passageways, the Strait of Hormuz, remains effectively shut.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026
Code 22-1307, which prohibits individuals from crowding or obstructing streets, sidewalks, building entrances, or other passageways, and D.C.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025
She didn’t know the layout of the temple outside of what Ekon had told her: The hallways and doors leading into darker passageways seemed endless.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
