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Recent Examples of floodgate
Floodwater flowed earlier Saturday over the spillway at Inks Dam, which forms Inks Lake but does not have floodgates.
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Powered By, Austin American Statesman, 7 July 2025
On June 8, Mercury will conjunct Jupiter in Gemini, opening the mental floodgates and turning up the volume on all the chatter.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 June 2025
Goldman Sachs opens the earnings floodgates Goldman Sachs (GS+2.70%) reported a robust 15% increase in first-quarter profit, reaching $4.74 billion, or $14.12 per share, driven by strong trading performance amid market volatility.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2025
Efforts to upgrade floodgates like Duke did at Lake Wateree in South Carolina are expensive, Jones said.
—Nora O’Neill, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2025
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Powered By, Austin American Statesman, 7 July 2025
On June 8, Mercury will conjunct Jupiter in Gemini, opening the mental floodgates and turning up the volume on all the chatter.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 June 2025
Goldman Sachs opens the earnings floodgates Goldman Sachs (GS+2.70%) reported a robust 15% increase in first-quarter profit, reaching $4.74 billion, or $14.12 per share, driven by strong trading performance amid market volatility.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2025
Efforts to upgrade floodgates like Duke did at Lake Wateree in South Carolina are expensive, Jones said.
—Nora O’Neill, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodgate
Noun
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Mitigating these risks requires careful planning and compliance, which creates barriers for many.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The order also directs CDPHE to collaborate with other state agencies and offices to identify and remove barriers to vaccination, ensure state health insurance plans and Medicaid cover COVID-19 vaccines and review and revise rules to ensure pharmacies can provide COVID-19 vaccines.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This coalesces and makes sense of the barrage of assaults designed to undermine Americans’ trust in our country, our Constitution and all the principles upon which it was built.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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When Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny finally learned who was behind the barrage of incessant, cruel texts that broke them up and created mass paranoia at their small Midwestern school, the truth was almost too impossible to believe.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Do not drive around barricades or through water of unknown depth.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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In Montpellier, in the southwest, police scuffled with protesters who had set up a barricade to block traffic at a roundabout.—
Stephane Mahe,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The flood bypass in Yolo and Solano counties diverts floodwaters from the Sacramento River away from the capital city and neighboring communities through a series of weirs.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacramento Bee,
6 Feb. 2025
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The map shows existing water barriers in the Valencia area, including dams and weirs, not structures that have been removed, Carlos Garcia De Leaniz, the AMBER project principal investigator and aquatic biosciences professor at Swansea University, told USA TODAY.—
Kate S. Petersen,
USA TODAY,
12 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The extra-large, rectangular shape offers enough space for long lengths and fluffy curls, while the strong, extra-long teeth form a lock that secures every last strand.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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In his ’70s heyday, few actors possessed Redford’s star wattage, aided considerably by his tousled blond locks, granite jaw and million-dollar smile.—
Steve Chagollan,
Variety,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Floodgate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodgate. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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