gateways

noun

plural of gateway
1
as in keys
something that allows someone to achieve a desired goal hopefully, my college degree will be a gateway to a high-paying job

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2
as in doors
the means or right of entering or participating in Denver is the gateway to the West

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3
as in doorways
the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure there are security checkpoints at all of the stadium's gateways

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Recent Examples of gateways Cargo on ships that have diverted away from the Hormuz is backing up at the region’s alternative gateways. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 As one of the principal gateways into the Saudi capital and a foundation stone of the entire Vision 2030 project, the Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s airport directly threaten the Kingdom’s strategy. — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026 Migrants from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa regularly attempt to cross the border fences around Ceuta and Melilla, seeing the Spanish cities as gateways to mainland Europe. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 The channel is one of the most crucial gateways for moving oil and gas out of the Gulf region. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 CISOs invested billions of dollars fortifying corporate inboxes with secure email gateways (SEGs), enforcing strict DMARC policies and conducting continuous phishing simulations for employees. — Firas Azmeh, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 The airline serves five gateways in the United States, including Phoenix, Seattle, and San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Ontario in California. — Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026 Many newcomers are bypassing traditional gateways for smaller cities and suburbs, drawn to emerging enclaves from Cincinnati and Knoxville to Utah’s booming communities, even as Florida remains the top destination for some nationalities. — Will Jarrett, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 The safety protections established for the central business district should also be available to historic residential communities, neighborhood gateways, school approaches and park corridors when comparable safety problems exist. — Lawrence Bell, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gateways
  1. keys
  2. doors
  3. doorways
  4. tickets
  5. entrances
  6. gates
  7. passports
  8. accesses
Noun
  • Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Working again with the vast Northeastern producer group $$$–almost all of whom are individually credited on, like, every track–Bank$ and his preacher friend talk to God over spare keys and groaning nautical machinery.
    — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of keys
Noun
  • Its stores open for eight to 10 weeks a year, but planning for next Halloween starts before this year’s doors close.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Some opening day effects are long gone, such as the illusion created by actual shifting doors at the start of the attraction, or visions of tumbling rubble near its beginning.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of doors
Noun
  • Many migrants who remained in Ceuta have sheltered in Muslim neighborhoods, sleeping on streets, in doorways and in makeshift tent camps and centers run by NGOs and locals.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • All multi-floor buildings have elevators, and there are accessible guest rooms with mobility features and wide doorways.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of doorways
Noun
  • The carriers said demand has been particularly strong for premium seats, which command hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, more than coach tickets.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The best views in the house—general admission floor tickets—will be available for as little as $100 in some venues, according to Fortune’s James LaForge.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of tickets
Noun
  • All entrances and exits to the city remained sealed, with the operation focused in Deir Bahha and another part of the city called Al-Jalda, according to Hebron Mayor Yousef Zuhair Al-Jabari.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Per a 2016 rule, students were allowed to chalk on walkways, concrete and asphalt but at least 30 feet away from building entrances and not on walls and vertical surfaces.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of entrances
Noun
  • United’s Kirby, a former American executive, could not allow his rival to claw back any more gates.
    — Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • In 1963, O’Malley invested in landscaping that would grow into lush botanical gardens just outside of its gates.
    — Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of gates
Noun
  • The rich have been stung by a surprise 20% tax on their offshore wealth, much of it squirreled away in trusts in Hong Kong and Singapore, triggering a new rush for foreign passports.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Unexcused absences in three consecutive elections freeze tax IDs, block nonvoters from applying to state jobs, hinders loans from state banks, and delays the issuance of passports.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of passports
Noun
  • Latency becomes the new battleground The researchers say accesses that would normally leave a rack and travel through a conventional network could instead follow a more predictable path.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This discipline involves architecting the entire information ecosystem an AI agent accesses—codebase structure, team standards, documentation and institutional knowledge (the unwritten rules and patterns teams develop over time).
    — Kevin Cushnie, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of accesses

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“Gateways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gateways. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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