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the direction along which something or someone moves the long, winding pathway of the river before it meets the sea

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Recent Examples of pathway The memorandum directs the Interior secretary to analyze the legal pathways. Alan Wooten, Baltimore Sun, 24 Jan. 2025 This restores the natural pathway where eggs and sperm may meet. Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025 The Webb administration had made the area a priority by establishing the South Platte River Commission to build parks and pathways in the area, but the area needed more than an amusement park. Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2025 By establishing clear pathways for registration and transparent disclosure frameworks, the SEC might achieve designing a regulatory environment where companies can operate with confidence while ensuring investor protection. Alexandra Andhov, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for pathway 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pathway
Noun
  • This season, Kansas City went 15-2 and earned the No. 1 seed in the AFC and a first-round bye and an easier path to the Super Bowl than Buffalo.
    Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The most common path founders take to turn an idea into a business is bootstrapping, relying on personal savings, support from friends and family, or even credit cards.
    Holly Eve, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Families being told to abandon their cars on evacuation routes to flee on foot and convalescent home residents being pushed down the street in wheelchairs as hot embers fly around them are scenes usually witnessed only in the movies.
    Caitlin Clarkson Pereira, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2025
  • To make the most of Mobile’s charms, consider bedding at the Malaga Inn, a boutique stay in twin townhouses that date back to 1862, mere blocks off the parade route.
    Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The property is adjacent to the unspoiled Torre Salsa Nature Reserve, featuring natural dunes and white sand beaches, which can be reached in just 5 minutes via a footpath from the property.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The Haudenosaunee Nation moved into the area and used the footpaths and trail systems.
    Gary Stoller, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Gianna and her father continued to share a love of the game and his mini-me was quickly on her way to carving out her own path in basketball.
    Natasha Dye, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Tying them this way keeps them from touching each other so the air moves around them freely.
    Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Rachel, a mother of five herself, was later found with savage injuries, stuffed into a culvert near the trail.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The trail takes hikers through the canyon with smooth marble walls.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 20 Jan. 2025

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“Pathway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathway. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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