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Recent Examples of floodgate
Four plays later, USF took a 24-7 lead and the floodgates opened.
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Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 29 Aug. 2025
For example, a Florida canal gate control system uses radar level sensors on each side of a floodgate, feeding a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) controller that automatically adjusts the gate to balance canal and tidal flows.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
The floodgates were open, and now sports betting has become legal in the vast majority of the country.
—Harry Enten, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
On Saturday, the Ohio Department of Transportation started installing 15 floodgates at the Riverfront Transit Center under Second Street to prevent the river from spilling onto Fort Washington Way.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodgate
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Eventually, the animals were clustered into a sluice-like enclosure, and then the animals would be extracted one by one.—
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Charlie got into the shower, letting the hot water sluice off the rest of the blood on her back and whatever had dried in her hair.—
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In some instances, the county will erect physical barriers, including locking the gates to county facilities.—
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This gap has been one of the biggest barriers to deploying robots in dynamic, unstructured environments.—
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Trump’s pressure campaign has included a barrage of personal insults at Powell, evolving into threats to fire the Fed chair.—
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Newsom used the speech to continue the anti-Trump barrage that has boosted his national standing among Democratic activists.—
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Due to the barricade situation, additional agents were called to the scene, officials said.—
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Insisting that a barricade of battleships and roughly 15,000 armed troops at Venezuela’s border is a non-invasive police action is just another misdirection.—
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Because of the weir, the 220-acre lagoon can’t flow freely to the ocean and is slowly filling with silt and reeds.—
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In fact, the weirs found along the route were involved in the milling process.—
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While the outside world locks into the exhilarating highlights, Johnson drills down on the nuances.—
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After turning the lock with his teeth and tongue, Dawson pushes open the front door and walks out into the night.—
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“Floodgate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodgate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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