as in embankment
a raised bank or wall made of soil
—usually plural
prehistoric earthworks
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Recent Examples of earthwork
This technique minimizes earthwork and avoids damaging tree roots.
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New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2025
Effigy Mounds preserves 200 or so prehistoric earthworks that were built by pre-Columbian people.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
Koko Bayer has filmed footage of most of her grandfather’s major sculptures and earthworks since 2019 for an in-progress documentary.
—Andrew Travers, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2025
In the 1970s, Smithson began making earthworks, the art pieces that would define his career.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2025
Effigy Mounds preserves 200 or so prehistoric earthworks that were built by pre-Columbian people.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
Koko Bayer has filmed footage of most of her grandfather’s major sculptures and earthworks since 2019 for an in-progress documentary.
—Andrew Travers, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2025
In the 1970s, Smithson began making earthworks, the art pieces that would define his career.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for earthwork
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The car continued down an embankment and came to rest on Coast Highway, police said.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
28 May 2025
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The vehicle reportedly broke through a fence barrier before rolling down an embankment and flipping upside down onto the highway, according to Fox 11.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
28 May 2025
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In the past, the upper parts of the castle ramparts, walls, and communication trenches were used as hanging gardens, where people cultivated citrus trees, vineyards, and olive trees, useful in case of siege for the self-support of the inhabitants.—
Elisabetta Tosi,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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That pleasantry starts to end on June 8, 2014, when Resy launches itself against the ramparts of the OpenTable juggernaut and the reservation-platform wars began.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 May 2025
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Urban Flood Safety and Water Quality District Five positions are open on this regional board tasked with managing levee maintenance along the Columbia River in northern Multnomah County.—
Meira Gebel,
Axios,
12 May 2025
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Related Articles Recent Bay Area warmth set to give way to a significant cooldown Miles of Delta levees are at risk of floods.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2025
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Another case is Egypt and Ethiopia, and their fight over a massive dam that is having an effect on the magnificent Nile River.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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Throughout the 20th century, various congressional Flood Control acts gave USACE the responsibility of federal flood management, leading to the agency’s leadership role in dam, levee, reservoir and lock building across the country.—
Robin Roenker,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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In the short run, adaptation—dikes and levees to protect flood-prone cities, relocating residences away from eroding coasts—can help.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
30 May 2025
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In addition, their burrows can damage or weaken levees, dikes and stream banks.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 May 2025
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Specific measures include restoring 114 miles of breakwaters and 12.32 miles of oyster reef.—
Suzanne Wright,
USA Today,
4 June 2025
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This could, for example, include investing in reforestation to store more carbon or restoring oyster reefs to function as a breakwater or to improve water quality.—
Bill Frist,
Forbes,
25 Sep. 2024
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His public skepticism of our NATO treaty commitments, at least unless allies pay more, ignores the alliance's strategic value as a bulwark against Russian expansionism and source for democratic resilience.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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But progressive leaders have cast the state as a bulwark against Trump’s opposition to transgender rights, which will probably be a big issue in the state’s 2026 campaign for governor.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2025
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From January through May, the stretch generated double-digit growth for container shipping sailings from the year prior, both northbound and southbound through the canal.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
5 June 2025
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By 1903, irrigation canals that funneled snowmelt from the Cascade Mountains were dug in the eastern part of the state, and in 1914, vineyards that are now considered historically important were planted in Yakima Valley; the most notable is W.B. Bridgman in Sunnyside.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
3 June 2025
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“Earthwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earthwork. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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