as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
hair-raising tales of outlaws who ambushed coaches traveling the high roads
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Recent Examples of high road
Speeding isn’t the only reason why the US has such high road fatality rates.
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Marin Cogan, Vox, 13 May 2024
In the United States, thousands of ‘high road’ restaurants are paving the way to a better industry, not just leading with their great food but their values.
—Saru Jayaraman, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
If 2016 Obama was singing the virtues of the high road, firmly but selectively pushing back on a presidential candidate who had peddled falsehoods about her husband, her 2020 speech shot fire from that high road by using Trump’s words against him.
—Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
In a legislature with a Republican supermajority that’s not open to gay rights – an LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill has been introduced 10 times and hasn’t become law – Antonio has learned to take the high road.
—cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
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Marin Cogan, Vox, 13 May 2024
In the United States, thousands of ‘high road’ restaurants are paving the way to a better industry, not just leading with their great food but their values.
—Saru Jayaraman, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
If 2016 Obama was singing the virtues of the high road, firmly but selectively pushing back on a presidential candidate who had peddled falsehoods about her husband, her 2020 speech shot fire from that high road by using Trump’s words against him.
—Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
In a legislature with a Republican supermajority that’s not open to gay rights – an LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill has been introduced 10 times and hasn’t become law – Antonio has learned to take the high road.
—cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high road
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This weekend, the Festival of the Arts returns to downtown Tempe and the APS Electric Light Parade returns to Phoenix, bringing with them road closures.The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Washington’s only hiccups were an early 82-68 road loss to Montana and a 67-68 road loss to No. 5 Louisiana State, a game which the Huskies led for almost all four quarters before falling in the final seconds.Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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The highway administration approves the plans; state and local jurisdictions oversee construction.Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Dec. 2024
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Six people, including two children, are dead after a person driving a pickup truck the wrong way on a Mississippi highway collided with a car.Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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The route covers 2000 years of Maastricht, passing the most beautiful monuments, the coziest squares and the most atmospheric streets.Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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As people grew more desperate, Maribel said, there was more crime on the street, even in the middle of the day.Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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The first involved a vehicle traveling the wrong way on the freeway near Recker Road in Mesa.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Police confirmed that no officers or motorists on the freeway were injured during the incident.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Protesters again gathered outside the parliament building on the main Rustaveli Avenue thoroughfare, launching fireworks at the building and at police lines.David Brennan, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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There’s a restaurant for every craving and any budget along Bay View’s main thoroughfare.Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
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Thirteen new flight routes to Rovaniemi Airport opened this year, bringing passengers from Geneva, Berlin, Bordeaux and more.CNN, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
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This second route, the one Patient X was using to recognize emotions, goes directly to the lower part of the brain (to the amygdala).Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Since the summer, the city has cleared a number of homeless encampments from North Park to the Dan Ryan expressway as part of a larger initiative to close such sites down and relocate residents to shelters or other housing.Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2024
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The Uber driver’s gray Volkswagen was heading east along the expressway toward the Kissena Blvd. overpass in Kew Gardens about 1:40 a.m. when the woman, Priyanka Sewhani, who was sitting in the back seat, opened the door and jumped out of the moving ride-share vehicle.Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 23 Nov. 2024
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Two Turkey fans stood in the middle of a three-lane carriageway.James Horncastle, The Athletic, 6 July 2024
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The project, first launched in 2019, broke ground in February 2023 to connect the A417 highway bypass to the Cowley roundabout, a section of road that is currently a single-lane carriageway that slows traffic, transportation officials said.Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
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“High road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20road. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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