high road

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Recent Examples of high road 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 But on Friday, Crawford characteristically took the high road in his comments to The Chronicle. John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2022 If the time comes when your husband becomes too incapacitated to visit his daughter and the rest of the family, please take the high road and do the compassionate thing. Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for high road 
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Noun
  • These plans outline how a forest will be managed — like logging parameters, species protections, restoration projects and road maintenance.
    April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Smith also did not dress for road games last month against the Winnipeg Jets, Los Angeles Kings, and the Utah Hockey Club.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • On the other side of the country, the head of the Washington state DOT has requested $150 million from the state legislature to address the shortcomings of legacy highways.
    David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Two people who relatives say are the victim’s cousins have been charged in connection with the murder in Connecticut of an 18-year-old whose body was found wrapped in a comforter on a highway.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • People pass by on the street as Hurricane Rafael passes by Havana, Cuba, on Wednesday.
    Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Downtown, the nearly identical tents of the Harris/Walz and Trump/Vance campaigns stood separated by several hundred feet on one of the main streets, but almost no one collected posters or bumper stickers from either forlorn camp on a balmy but heavily overcast day.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Smoke was also limiting visibility and slowing traffic on the busy U.S. 101 freeway, south of the state route, the department said on X. High winds caused spot fires to ignite 2½ miles away in front of the site of the original blaze, Ventura County Fire Chief Dustin Gardner said.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Alone, the tax would fund freeways (40.5%), bus transit and bus rapid transit (33.5%), and major roadways and regional transportation infrastructure (22.5%).
    Coleby Phillips, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Roman Road, in London’s East End, is a busy thoroughfare just south of Victoria Park.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The next one on the boards is the 15,000 square foot dining and entertainment venue Oro and Elixir opening on main thoroughfare Lincoln Road this fall.
    Laurie Werner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • One route candidates can take is through a recount.
    Chantelle Lee, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The route to these positions need not—and perhaps should not—run through the Ivy League or Silicon Valley.
    Keenan Robbins, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Chicago has less than 15 miles, excluding bus-on-shoulder lanes on expressways.
    Will Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
  • After all, the expressway connects two of Cincinnati’s major highways.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • That last one, piloting an American-size SUV down narrow carriageways from Bloomsbury to Richmond, was the only stretch of expensive misery.
    Curbed, Curbed, 31 May 2023

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“High road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20road. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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