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waterway

[waw-ter-wey, wot-er-] / ˈwɔ tərˌweɪ, ˈwɒt ər- /
NOUN
estuary
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The court ruling was the latest legal move to ricochet through the interoceanic waterway, which handles about 40 percent of US container traffic and five percent of world trade.

From Barron's

Nearby were partial skeletons of long necked dinosaurs preserved in river sediments, pointing to a forested inland environment crisscrossed by waterways.

From Science Daily

The strategic waterway connects the Persian Gulf to the wider Indian Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal

Indigenous protesters in Brazil occupied a shipping terminal operated by US agricultural giant Cargill on Saturday, demanding a ban on dredging Amazon waterways.

From Barron's

The strategic waterway connects the Persian Gulf to the wider Indian Ocean and around a fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through it.

From The Wall Street Journal