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Recent Examples of isthmus
The latest screwworm detections in Oaxaca and Veracruz are just beyond the isthmus.
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Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025
Steamships laden with mail sailed from the East Coast to Panama, where the mail was taken off the ships, transported in canoes or on pack animals, and handed to another steamship waiting on the Pacific side of the isthmus.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
It is only connected to Faial by an isthmus, a narrow strip of land with a dune system.
—Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Portages across the isthmus of Panama could shorten that, if there was a boat waiting on the Pacific side—all this was more than half a century before the Panama Canal existed.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 23 Apr. 2025
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Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025
Steamships laden with mail sailed from the East Coast to Panama, where the mail was taken off the ships, transported in canoes or on pack animals, and handed to another steamship waiting on the Pacific side of the isthmus.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
It is only connected to Faial by an isthmus, a narrow strip of land with a dune system.
—Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Portages across the isthmus of Panama could shorten that, if there was a boat waiting on the Pacific side—all this was more than half a century before the Panama Canal existed.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for isthmus
island
Noun
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Her lady-in-waiting’s husband, Lord Colin Tennant, spent vast amounts of his fortune on transforming Mustique, a tiny island in the Caribbean, into a party resort for the rich and famous.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
13 July 2025
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Where is the videotape of an Epstein island, x, y and z committing these frauds?—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 July 2025
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“Isthmus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/isthmus. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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