dual carriageway

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of dual carriageway Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads. The Economist, 23 May 2020 The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Fox News, 16 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dual carriageway
Noun
  • The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Low gas prices are expected to fuel high road traffic.
    Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But Pike — like many others here — knows that the thousands of dogs roaming freely between the desert landscape and people's homes serve as a superhighway for ticks.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Think of it as a superhighway connecting two bustling cities, allowing seamless and efficient communication.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • People were living in deep poverty right there in Oxford, on the ring road and in the outer suburbs, beyond the university.
    Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena.
    James Horncastle, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
Noun
  • They can be taken anywhere on local roads but not on motorways and not yet within the London Congestion Charging zone, though access to central London is in the works.
    Nicole Kobie, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The whole sequence where the Doctor pilots the TARDIS down the motorway while trying to save Donna is edge-of-your-seat stuff.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Upon arrival, officers found an unresponsive male with apparent gunshot wounds lying in the street next to a vehicle parked in front of the address, according to the social media post.
    Lena Miano, arkansasonline.com, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Robinson’s friend, Danny Shigemori, who has lived on the street for 55 years and ran a landscaping business, lost his place too.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Between the lines: Last year, a group of residents and organizations formed the Reimagine 175 coalition to advocate for converting the interstate into a street-grade boulevard.
    Kathryn Varn, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Choose tools that match your organization’s technical proficiency; don’t buy a Ferrari for someone who’s never going to drive on the interstate.
    Cory McNeley, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Last summer's sewage leak into the James River was caused partly by a series of issues with the bypass pumps, including the temporary pumps being in use for three years.
    Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
  • That hackers want your account credentials is no secret, be that from high-speed attacks against Microsoft accounts or two-factor authentication bypass attacks against Google users.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The locale is connected to the mainland by a single causeway that is only accessible once the tides recede.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Just across Sarasota Bay on the causeway is Lido Key, which has stunning white-sand beaches and popular sunset cruises.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025

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“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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