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as in region
a broad geographical area the urban corridor along the state's eastern coast is considerably more liberal than the rural areas to the west

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as in hallway
a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building the long, sterile corridors give the government building a forbidding air

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Recent Examples of corridor Henry and Shabaka drew their silhouettes from the long corridor of the twentieth century, somehow collapsing decades of dress into a single lineage. Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 15 Sep. 2025 Developers say the project would activate a key corridor with a new convenience store option, while creating space for additional retail tenants. Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Colleen Jones, who has lived across from the Tandy Village property for more than 20 years, said more needed to be done to make nearby East Lancaster Avenue a vibrant, walkable commercial corridor before apartments would make sense in the area. Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2025 The corridor is expected to include an intermodal logistics hub with terminals for container transshipment and storage areas. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for corridor
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  • The Russian strikes targeted Ukraine’s central city of Dnipro and the wider Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as the Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Zaporizhzhia regions, and also communities in the Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions, according to Zelenskyy.
    Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the global production of castor seed is concentrated in India, where the crop thrives in semi-arid regions with minimal water, fertilizer, or pesticide inputs.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
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  • The spirit tunnel, as the talk show has dubbed it, features crew members singing and clapping as guests on the show walk down a hallway to the set.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Shoes and booties from his new Marie Antoinette capsule collection peeked from little green trees and bushes set up in the museum’s big marble hallway.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
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  • Inspired by the Japanese treat both in formula and texture, the Iota Supermochi Body Exfoliator+ contains soothing sweet rice water and exfoliating red bean extract—alongside ingredients like lactic acid, sea salt, and urea—to gently resurface your skin from the neck down.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Winter Wools Nothing feels sharper or warmer than a funnel-neck coat made of warm wool.
    Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • Their three robotic rovers, outfitted with an array of cutting-edge imagery gear including time-of-flight cameras, helped the team generate an atlas of 3D maps of the site - from its skylight to its inner passageways.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Those tendrils of greenery would act as invitations worth accepting, passageways to Queens’s own central park, a haven of natural beauty, noisy play, quiet retreat, and social gathering.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • By launch, their costs have pushed prices into no-man's land—too expensive for bargain hunters, not special enough for luxury buyers.
    Erhan Kaya, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The bands partnered with the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon to put on the show, in support of their fight to achieve climate justice and secure immediate recognition and protection for Indigenous lands.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • The renovations are part of a larger $242 million airport modernization program currently underway that will update design across six of the terminal’s seven concourses (A, B, C, D, F, and G) by the end of this year.
    Michelle Baran, AFAR Media, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Some of those plans include terminal lobby expansions, concourse upgrades, and traffic improvements.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Corridor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corridor. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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