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 The Boring Company, Musk’s tunneling operation, is still digging underground passageways in Las Vegas — but for Teslas, not hyperloops. Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2024 Possibilities include building new structures, refashioning existing ones, creating passageway diversions or installing animal warning systems to alert drivers. Noël Fletcher, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024 Those viruses proceed to reproduce while infecting the cells lining our nasal passageways. Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2024 Such lean staffing is something of a necessity: the Bowery Market, a onetime auto-body shop on a busy NoHo corner, hosts four near-microscopic food stalls arranged around a broad open-air passageway. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for passageway 
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Noun
  • The Darién Gap, a thick swath of jungle between Panama and Colombia, long considered impassable, became a migrant corridor—a million people crossed through it between 2021 and 2024, more than ten times as many as during the decade before.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
  • This date happens to coincide with the end of the last Ice Age, a time when an ice-free corridor likely emerged in North America - giving rise to an idea about how early humans moved into the continent after crossing the Bering land bridge from Asia.
    CBS News, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
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  • On his way to an appointment on Wednesday afternoon with Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Hegseth passed in the hallway by fellow nominee, former congresswoman and Democrat-now-Republican Tulsi Gabbard.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Sequestered down a hallway are four bedrooms, including one that’s been converted into an office and a primary suite that comes with a walk-in closet/dressing area and a bath spotlighted by a large rainfall shower, while the lower level holds a spacious family room that flows outside.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Delta’s Charlotte club occupies the second floor of the airport’s nicest concourse, the nine-gate AA concourse, which opened in September.
    Ted Reed, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • For those traveling through Oregon, therapy llamas roam the concourse at the Portland International Airport.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2024

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“Passageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passageway. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.

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