canal
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That summer, the couple cancelled a cruise that was due to depart from New York City and go through the Panama canal.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
He basically started with his emergence from the birth canal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"Our partially restored Lichfield canal has so many people walking on the towpaths and enjoying it."
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
"I've lived here for 25 years and the water has never been this low," said pensioner Mitica Nicolae from Corabia as he fished in an irrigation canal close to the river.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Across the town square I pedaled, over the canal on the Grote Hout bridge and along the Wagenweg, reveling in the thin winter sunshine.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Amsterdam came alive with music, colour and celebration on Saturday, as thousands of people flocked to the canals to watch the city's annual Pride boat parade.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Some ships linked to the Russian government also sail from the Caspian via rivers and canals to the Black Sea where they can transit onward to other ports elsewhere in the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Cities and towns will also get more from the federal canals that are part of the Central Valley Project.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Researchers caution that this does not mean root canals are a treatment for diabetes.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
Its bridges connect to Manhattan and it’s split up by canals and creeks—filthy green streaks of water that remind you that it used to be a swamp.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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The warmth at his heart annulled whatever of chill stole in at the grayness of the canaled streets of the northern city after the color and glow of Porto.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
Hindu temples, for the many Guyanese descended from laborers from the Indian subcontinent, dot Georgetown’s canalled streets.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2010
And he should never be blocked in: he should at most be canalled.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
It consists of canalling, improving river navigation, rail-roads, and common turnpike roads.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
When I got old enough, and had money enough, I was determined to go west and seek my fortune; for I always felt that canalling was, somehow, beneath what I wanted to do and become.
From Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick
We had a good deal of difficulty at first in our canalling, especially in meeting and passing vessels.
From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland
The spirit of improvement throughout the United States, especially evidenced in canalling, and rail-roads, will, it is hoped, in a few years, open modes of communication, which as yet are wanting, with the markets.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
Those of the latter are more generally found about our large towns and cities, and along the lines of canalling.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
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