passageway

as in corridor
a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building the passageway to the other side of the office

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Recent Examples of passageway Secret passageways to history Correspondent Nancy Giles goes in search of hidden rooms, and finds some of them in the most unexpected places. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 15 May 2025 But not too long ago, the balance of this passageway was under threat. Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025 Inside a narrow, precarious passageway, his left foot was snared by a rock. Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025 Viewers watch the detectives travel from room to room — and maybe secret passageways — all to determine the chain of events that led to Wynter’s demise. Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for passageway
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Noun
  • Having spent the early part of the QSI regime in conflict with UEFA over breaches of its financial fair play regulations, Al-Khelaifi now had one of the most powerful voices in European football’s corridors of power.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • What Penn has long required is single vision to end its Balkanized corridors, patrolled by three separate police departments and cleaned by three separate maintenance crews (each knows where to stop based on the pattern of the floor tiles).
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • The immigration officers waited for hours in the hallways of the immigration court as the hearings took place, chit-chatting and cracking jokes among themselves.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • The mountain of allegations exploded into public view months after Ventura’s suit when surveillance footage was leaked to CNN showing her being savagely beaten by Combs in a hallway at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles in March 2016.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Clubs in England can serve alcohol on their stadiums’ concourses.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 31 May 2025
  • The clashes began in the second deck, then continued into the concourse below.
    Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025

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“Passageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passageway. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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