interoceanic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of interoceanic
Example Sentences
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Near the entrance to the Panama Canal, a monument to China's contributions to the interoceanic waterway was torn down Saturday night by order of local authorities.
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
The Panama Canal Authority last week opened two additional slots per day for vessels without booking to transit to help clear bottlenecks on both sides of the interoceanic corridor.
From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2023
Panama, the narrow isthmus linking the North and South American landmasses, is the hemisphere’s natural transit point — both for cargo ships using its interoceanic canal and for U.S.-bound migrants coming from South America.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2019
If the operation continues according to plan, La Pampa – which stretches nearly 20km along the interoceanic highway – will be wiped off the map.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2019
The Panama railway marked the beginning of a new era in the history of interoceanic communication.
From The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906 by Dryden, John F. (John Fairfield)
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