as in canal
an open man-made passageway for water
marveled at the ancient Roman aqueducts that still carry water to distant villages
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Recent Examples of aqueduct
Completed eight years later, the canal stretched some 363 miles (584 kilometers), with 18 aqueducts and 83 locks to compensate for elevation changes en route.
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Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
For millennia, qanats—ingenious underground aqueducts—balanced survival with scarcity across the central plateau of Iran.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Pipes are painted like tree trunks, flumes are supported by faux crumbling aqueducts, waterfalls gush through holes in the hulls of boats and sails hang overhead to protect from the searing sun.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Three days earlier, the 15-year-old boy and dad Raul Ramirez were traveling on Interstate 5 when their SUV went off the road and into the aqueduct, according to the outlets.
—Sam Gillette, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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canal
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Trump had posted some of Loomer’s footage on his Truth Social account and threatened to seize the canal, prompting Panamanians to burn effigies of him.—
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As the population swelled, the Uji was joined with the Yodo and Katsura Rivers to create a network of canals for the transport of goods, expanding the shogun’s economic reach and power.—
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“Aqueduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aqueduct. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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