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as in dam
a bank of earth constructed to control water
the raging floodwaters were too much for the levee to handle
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as in wharf
a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers
we tied the boat up at the levee and started unloading the fish we had caught
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Recent Examples of levee
Similar projects are underway elsewhere in the Bay Area, including Palo Alto’s $7 million living levee and other horizontal levee efforts in Hayward and North Richmond.
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Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
The channel is meant to boost flood control and replace aging levees built in the wake of the 1949 flood.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
After that, the government initiated a new era of levee building.
—Melina Walling, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Photos, maps show effects of record flooding Several levees have failed in western Washington this month due to the heavy rain and flooding.
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
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Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
The channel is meant to boost flood control and replace aging levees built in the wake of the 1949 flood.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
After that, the government initiated a new era of levee building.
—Melina Walling, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Photos, maps show effects of record flooding Several levees have failed in western Washington this month due to the heavy rain and flooding.
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for levee
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This is small, beaver-dam-laden water with a sandy composition, and a few years ago, Kozminski caught a glimpse of something irregular sticking out of the sand.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
2 Apr. 2026
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Some customers complain about large icicles and ice dams forming in the winter where there weren’t issues previously, which makes some homeowners question how well the system actually collects runoff.—
Dan Simms,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Pan captured 243 photographs and 13 videos of payload-processing facilities, munitions bunkers, security checkpoints, mission-control centers, fuel and ordnance storage sites, and the nuclear submarine wharf.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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The first responders arrived to find a vehicle submerged in about 10 feet of water just off the wharf parking lot.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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The California Highway Patrol was investigating a crash on Friday that briefly shut down Highway 50 in El Dorado County after a vehicle went off the road and crashed at the bottom of an embankment, leaving its driver and passenger with serious injuries.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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Westbound Highway 50 was shut down for an extended time as crews removed the vehicle from the embankment.—
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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In Connecticut, volunteers are needed to help cleanup the Long Wharf in New Haven at the canal dock boathouse.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
31 Mar. 2026
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The second modular part, the media dock, clicks down onto one of two USB-C ports on the top right or left side of the keyboard.—
Aubrey Jowers,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2026
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In 1903, a vicious winter storm reduced most of the piers to splinters, and by 1906 offshore oil production at Summerland had all but ceased.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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SkyCal was overhead as a large group of people waited at the end of the pier while law enforcement personnel swept the pier.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Ten 35-pound wreckfish — enormous silver deep-water dwellers that live down to 650 feet — are filleted and bagged on a large stainless-steel table on the quay.—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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Waiting at the quay were water taxis for hotel guests.—
Vic O'Sullivan,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Levee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/levee. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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