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as in region
a broad geographical area the urban corridor along the state's eastern coast is considerably more liberal than the rural areas to the west

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as in hallway
a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building the long, sterile corridors give the government building a forbidding air

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Recent Examples of corridor What To Know In an update issued on Wednesday, Amtrak outlined construction projects in six states that are designed to move the corridor towards its target. Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025 With limited uninterrupted areas for walking and cycling, the urge to turn this corridor exclusively into a park — akin to Manhattan’s High Line — is understandable. Paul Dreyer, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2025 Businesses in other parts of the city will be watching Colfax, which is the first of several street-level BRT corridors planned. Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025 Its presence was strongest along the I-35 corridor from San Antonio to Dallas and in southeast Texas, the ADL said. Megan Stringer, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for corridor
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Noun
  • In addition to the Black Sea region of Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014, Moscow controls large swathes of Ukraine.
    Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Forrest joins a morning exercise drill with Fortescue employees at Cloudbreak, a Fortescue iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia on Dec 6, 2024.
    Justin Worland, TIME, 25 Feb. 2025
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  • Ideas are shared in hallway conversations, buried in meeting notes, or remain locked in the minds of a few senior leaders.
    Rhea Wessel, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The couple walked out to the hallway together during a break, each holding one of their sons.
    Jack Irvin, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
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  • The ruling was that both players violated the hands to the face/head/neck of an opponent policy.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Tropicana ditched its distinctive carafe, with its circular shape, thinning neck, and crown-like bottle cap.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
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  • Where: 2000 Smallman St., Strip District, inside the 20th Street passageway.
    Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Another is that researchers must create a highly compact and dense electron pulse to pass through the carbon nanotube passageway to begin with.
    The Physics arXiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
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  • An apocalyptic adventure story teeming with rock and rollers, samizdat books, worker rebellions, and underground societies, the novel envisions this land and its future not as utopian or dystopian, necessarily, but rather as a site of branching possibilities.
    David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Dalton plays Donald Whitfield, a land baron who has set his sights on the Yellowstone ranch.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
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  • Zoom in: The 4,600-square-foot Outfield Market will be on the right field concourse, opposite the Bullpen lounge named (what else) The Pen.
    Kristal Dixon, Axios, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Warren Buffett surveys the concourse ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 3, 2024.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025

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“Corridor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corridor. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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