isthmus

as in island
a narrow geographic area that connects two larger geographic areas across a body of water the Isthmus of Panama

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Recent Examples of isthmus One visit is just scratching the surface of the isthmus nation; here are nine ideas for how to spend your next Panamanian holiday. Siobhan Reid, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2024 Today in history On this day in 1904, the United States and Panama proclaimed a treaty under which the U.S. agreed to undertake efforts to build a ship canal across the Panama isthmus. The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024 The tests took place about twenty miles south of Christchurch, on a thin, dusty isthmus called the Kaitorete Spit. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 The isthmus, Mexico’s narrowest point between the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, is a key smuggling corridor for U.S.-bound illicit drugs and undocumented migrants. Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for isthmus 

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“Isthmus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/isthmus. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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