parkway

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Recent Examples of parkway The '80s are out: West Des Moines' older office buildings between 22nd and 50th streets were once regional draws, but attention has shifted as businesses seek out newer developments near Jordan Creek and Grand Prairie parkways. Linh Ta, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024 California Security guard for Chase helped plan a $200,000 armed heist in Palmdale, authorities say Oct. 11, 2024 The suspect fled the bank, near the intersection of Portola and Bake parkways, before deputies arrived. Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024 Most famously, five children were killed in a fiery one-car wreck on the parkway in March 2023 in Scarsdale. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024 According to a release from the New York State Police, on Saturday, Nov. 16 at approximately 12 a.m., two troopers were struck by a 2004 gray Toyota RAV4 on the parkway in Babylon, New York. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for parkway 
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • Trucks carrying hazardous materials that used the bridge to cross the harbor are now forced to go around the beltway in the opposite direction (a 35-mile detour) due to cargo restrictions through Baltimore City traffic tunnels.
    April Quevedo, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Guo and Cui have lived in Beijing all their lives and have barely travelled outside of the second ring road, a rectangular beltway built in the 1980s around central Beijing, with an area roughly equivalent to the size of the old city.
    Qiang Xiaoji, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2015
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
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  • Limited driving range tends to be an issue when driving longer distances on the highway, creating an additional incentive to conserve fuel.
    Peter Douglas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Production has ceased on Season 2 of the Big Talk Studios series about an 18th-century highway robber, putting a cast and crew of hundreds out of work with nothing to show for their efforts.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
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
  • The other side: Richmond, Virginia, is a veritable autobahn by comparison, with drivers making the same distance trip in under 10 minutes on average.
    Shawna Chen, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The top speed of 218 mph went untested, but if the speedometer on one example taped on the autobahn is to believed, the LaFerrari can actually punch its way all the way to 231 mph.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • Against a towering backdrop of black smoke with an ominous orange glow, the stately homes and broad boulevards of the Pacific Palisades looked small and exposed on Tuesday.
    Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Where is new Sacramento-area restaurant? Tandoori Pizza’s new Elk Grove location will be in the Laguna Gateway shopping plaza adjacent to Highway 99 at the intersection of Laguna and West Stockton boulevards in Elk Grove.
    Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Parkway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parkway. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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