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Recent Examples of floodgate
The recent struggles have brought trade rumors surrounding star outfielder Jarren Duran and if Boston decides to move off him, the trade floodgates will more than likely open.
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Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
But the floodgates were expected to reopen in 2025, with Trump returning to the White House and Wall Street expecting a roaring stock market and a more business-friendly climate overall.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 16 May 2025
By 2010, the confessional floodgates were permanently open.
—Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2025
The plan includes 124 projects designed to dredge sand, rebuild degraded marshes, and add levees, floodgates and storm surge barriers.
—Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
But the floodgates were expected to reopen in 2025, with Trump returning to the White House and Wall Street expecting a roaring stock market and a more business-friendly climate overall.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 16 May 2025
By 2010, the confessional floodgates were permanently open.
—Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2025
The plan includes 124 projects designed to dredge sand, rebuild degraded marshes, and add levees, floodgates and storm surge barriers.
—Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodgate
Noun
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During an extreme-rainfall event, the force of the water cascading down these straightened sluices meets with no resistance from meanders, and a river often has no way of reaching its floodplains—frequently now developed—which could absorb and store some runoff.—
John Seabrook,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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The focus is on the Bangs Lake outfall control structure, which is currently maintained by manually making adjustments to the sluice gate.—
Gregory Harutunian,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2025
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Thousands of Ohioans could drop off Medicaid or face new barriers to coverage even as the state prepares for an extra infusion of federal money.—
Haley BeMiller,
The Enquirer,
10 July 2025
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Others have built barriers to protect vulnerable neighborhoods.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
10 July 2025
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Ionescu’s barrage continued, however, with a 25-foot trey after Kennedy Burke’s block on Satou Sabally.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
25 July 2025
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So far, Powell is resisting cutting rates, hence the barrage of insults and threat of firing.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
24 July 2025
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Nicolas runs towards the edge as well, but lands directly on a barricade, folding over it from the torso.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
17 July 2025
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Iyo knocked Ripley off a giant production crate, climbed to the top of the barricade and dove onto Ripley.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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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
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Love locks have been slowly disappearing from the Old Red Bridge in south Kansas City off Red Bridge Road, as an amateur locksmith from Overland Park admits to using the locks to practice his skills.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 July 2025
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The spray is also formulated with argan oil, vitamins, and fatty acids to smooth and soften your locks.—
PEOPLE Deals Team,
People.com,
10 July 2025
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“Floodgate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodgate. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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