isthmus
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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 migrant route through the narrow isthmus grew exponentially in popularity in recent years with the help of organized crime in Colombia, making it an affordable, if dangerous, land route for hundreds of thousands.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024
The Tehuana dress — originating among Zapotec women on the isthmus — was famously adopted by Frida Kahlo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
The latter desert separated advanced human societies of Mesoamerica from those of North America, while the isthmus separated advanced societies of Mesoamerica from those of the Andes and Amazonia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
The pseudospores of Rœstelia are produced in strings or chaplets, as in Æcidium, with this difference, that instead of being contiguous they are separated by narrow isthmuses.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Pod 1° long, with linear stalk, containing many seeds separated by filamentous isthmuses.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Marine isthmuses, cutting of, 517; its difficulties, 518; sometimes done by nature, 519.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
The natural route lay obviously through the Caribbean, across some one of the isthmuses, and up the Pacific coast.
From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Carl Russell Fish
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