subways

plural of subway

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subways
Noun
  • Large vents, openings, and aerodynamic tunnels dominate the rear bodywork, creating a sense of lightness despite the car’s width.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Weeks after overflows from Atlanta’s sewer tunnels contributed to the deaths of thousands of fish on the Chattahoochee River, the city’s Department of Watershed Management says its investigating another fish kill on a different river.
    Drew Kann, AJC.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • The Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument contains caves that have been used as shelters by nomadic peoples for thousands of years.
    Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
  • The researchers successfully recovered ancient human DNA in samples taken from five of the 11 caves.
    Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Dragonstone is the windswept ancestral seat of House Targaryen, but the Black Queen did not grow up playing among its dusky caverns.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • While the lake is said to have been discovered in 1905 by a 13-year-old boy named Ben Sands, the surrounding caverns were used by the Cherokee long ago—20,000-year-old jaguar tracks have also been found there.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2026
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