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causeway

[kawz-wey] / 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

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

“Okay. We can take the causeway and stop in Mandeville.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

Across the causeways and located directly on the beach, Untitled had even more to enjoy.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 3, 2025

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

Rescue missions were ongoing, especially to Florida’s barrier islands, which were cut off from the mainland when storm surges destroyed causeways and bridges.

From Seattle Times Oct. 2, 2022

To move people and goods from place to place, Indians built networks of ruler-straight causeways and canals, some of them three miles long.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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