Definition of passagenext
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as in voyage
a journey over water in a vessel the passage to Britain requires several days

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as in excerpt
a part taken from a longer work the news report quoted a passage from the novel

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Recent Examples of passage That same year saw the passage of the Federal Banking Agency Audit Act, which gave the Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog, the authority to audit the Fed for the first time. Paul Wachtel, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026 Strait of Hormuz The strait, before he war, offered passage to about one-fifth of the world’s seaborne oil trade. Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2026 None of that will change with the passage of State Question 846. Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 28 Aug. 2026 The next day, Mladic's forces were filmed handing out sweets to children, promising their safe passage. Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for passage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for passage
Noun
  • That could offer shipowners another route toward lower fuel use and emissions.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Avelo Airlines is extending its flight schedule at Concord-Padgett Regional Airport after announcing five new routes this year.
    DJ Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026
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  • This year’s Silver Medallion tributes — the festival’s signature career honorees — will go to filmmaker Andrew Haigh and actors Sandra Hüller and John Malkovich, who will make his first trip to Telluride.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • That season’s trip to the West finals, alas, underscores what a disaster the Leonard era has been for this franchise, even as Leonard generally played amazingly.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
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  • Carnival guests will similarly earn three points for every dollar spent on eligible purchases, and one point for each Casino Point left at the end of their voyage.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • There are famous sailing ships with female names that many Americans can cite, such as the nicknames for the three Spanish ships — the Niña, Pinta and Santa María — used by Christopher Columbus during his famed first voyage to the New World in 1492.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
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  • The excerpt is taken, of course, from the first page of Wolf Hall, for which Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize in 2009.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Lindsay Clancy described depression in diary, notes On the fifth day of the trial, excerpts from Lindsay Clancy's diary were read aloud.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
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  • What the article does not show is that this process is what high-performing firms use, or that firms which use it then outperform.
    Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • To comply, states would have to retool their processes for printing and mailing ballots, a potentially expensive process that might be difficult to achieve quickly.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2026
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  • His death ignited anger in a small town where tensions between Black residents and the police have boiled over in recent years.
    Sophie Bates, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The public health department’s document also listed a history of stroke and kidney cancer as other significant conditions that contributed to his death, but did not result in the underlying cause of Curry’s death.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
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  • Rain chances along the storm's path remain over 60% on Wednesday, according to weather service forecasts.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Aitken is hopeful that the team’s sale will open a path to a new land deal with incoming owner Stan Kroenke.
    Sam Blum, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
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  • British Arctic expeditions used the north coast of Svalbard as a base for research, a tradition of scientific observation that continues across Svalbard today.
    Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • That personal expedition snowballed into an association, The Sun Trip, dedicated to promoting renewable energy, sustainable transport, and grassroots engineering through long-distance cycling expeditions.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026

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“Passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passage. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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