navigability
Americannoun
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Americans have dramatically engineered the Mississippi River to control floods and increase navigability.
From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2023
“This investment to improve the safety and navigability of the Mississippi River is great news for farmers, businesses, and Missouri’s economy,” Blunt said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2022
The Clean Water Act extended the scope of federal protections by eliminating the reliance on navigability in its definition of waters covered.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2020
I took the same approach, though I added an extra feature to improve navigability: You can collapse each day to easily navigate into the past.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2015
The legislatures of various countries have established varying gauges to determine where the navigability of a river may be said to cease.
From The Historic Thames by Belloc, Hilaire
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