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Tappan Zee

American  
[tap-uhn zee] / ˈtæp ən ˈzi /

noun

  1. a widening section of the Hudson River in SE New York, between Tarrytown and Nyack: bridged 1955. About 3 miles (5 km) wide.


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"With the governor’s office to soon have a new occupant, there has never been a better time to restore the name of the Tappan Zee Bridge than right now," he told the outlet.

From Fox News • Aug. 13, 2021

While the old armature rots, a new one rises alongside it, much as the new Tappan Zee Bridge, over the Hudson, gradually took shape next to the rusty old one it would one day replace.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

Cuomo held an opening ceremony for the structure, only to have to postpone the actual opening after engineers warned that pieces of the old Tappan Zee Bridge, now being dismantled, could fall onto motorists.

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2018

But that span never opened as planned on Saturday as engineers cited a ‘potentially dangerous situation’ involving the old and adjacent Tappan Zee Bridge, which is being taken apart.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2018

Using binoculars, I watched a sailboat regatta down by the Tappan Zee Bridge and saw the slowly moving traffic on the bridge above.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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