as in levee
a bank of earth constructed to control water
the embankment is steep, so be careful walking along the ridge
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Recent Examples of embankment
Cortney said Park's body was then pushed down an embankment and covered with leaves, and that the fetus was placed in a cooler, then a trash bag, before being thrown into a dumpster.
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Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
Additional camera footage captured her walking toward the river embankment.
—Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 9 Dec. 2025
In Prague, large concrete blocks have been placed along popular embankments and around key foot-traffic areas, while police have increased patrols to monitor potential targets.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 6 Dec. 2025
Rhonda Marie Fisher’s body was found on April 1, 1987 off a highway embankment near Sedalia, Colorado, the sheriff’s office said.
—Hanna Park, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
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The levees need critical repairs, and sediment slows water flowing in the river channel.—
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Like a ball passing through the barriers of a pinball machine, the water flows among the components as directed by 2,200 miles of canals, 2,100 miles of levees and berms, 84 pump stations and 778 water control structures.—
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Everglades restoration involves removing as many of these dams as possible without risking flood control, while adding more reservoirs for water storage, all to revive a river of grass that flows once more.—
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But efforts to mitigate human harms—restricting harvests, remodeling dams, breeding salmon in hatcheries—are yielding diminishing returns.—
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“Embankment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embankment. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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