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the direction along which something or someone moves the long, winding pathway of the river before it meets the sea

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Recent Examples of pathway To help future creatives navigate the best pathway, THR compiled its inaugural top animation schools list. Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025 Spend Time in the Sun (Safely) Vitamin D is involved in the biochemical pathways that help your body produce and respond to dopamine. Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025 Install them into the ground around a pathway, in garden beds or planters, or alongside a fence for easy setup. Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 5 June 2025 The order bars entry for most applicants seeking tourist, student and business visas, further narrowing the few remaining legal pathways for families torn apart by dictatorship, displacement and economic collapse. Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for pathway
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Noun
  • Plans call for a perimeter walking-and-biking trail that loops into a network of pedestrian paths.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 4 June 2025
  • Investigators believed the person who killed Betsy Faria took the dog outside after she was stabbed, the probable cause said, and blood was cleaned up from the path between the victim and the patio door.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Process mining is the statistically most popular routes (where there is tracking).
    Ian Gotts, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • Every day at the start of practice, the wide receivers line up and run half-speed routes to get loose, while the quarterbacks throw high-arcing passes downfield.
    Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Paille also said that urban areas could be redesigned to separate roads from footpaths.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 27 May 2025
  • Shoppers have used them to spruce up everything from driveways, footpaths, and flower beds to stairways, swimming pools, and retaining walls.
    Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • Yet Operation Spider's Web, orchestrated by the SBU intelligence service, was also part of a recurring theme: Ukraine keeps inventing new ways to wage war with drones, and regularly catches Russia by surprise.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 7 June 2025
  • And one of the fastest ways to lose it is poor communication.
    Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • Volunteers sought to clear trails Cuyamaca Rancho State Park’s trails maintenance volunteer unit is looking for volunteers to help with trail maintenance in Cuyamaca.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2025
  • Watch a trail cam video capture one bear's scratch routine.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 13 June 2025

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“Pathway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathway. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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