ring road

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of ring road In July, Judge Hehir sentenced a group of Just Stop Oil activists to four- and five-year sentences over a campaign to disrupt traffic on the M25, the major ring road in London. Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 26 Sep. 2024 The Russians created a similar situation in early 2022, storming across the northern border, occupying villages and small towns, and reaching the ring road that circumscribes Kharkiv. Constant Méheut, New York Times, 12 May 2024 The last major piece of road building in Bengaluru was an outer ring road built 24 years ago. IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2024 The island will also have a ring road with a dedicated bus or train line, similar to the free Molly The Trolly service in downtown Fort Worth. Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ring road 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
  • Turbofans divert some airflow around the core of a turbojet engine, speeding it up with a large fan, and then mix this bypass air with the jet exhaust.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Dec. 2024
  • As already mentioned in this article about passkeys, such authentication methods help address the issue of 2FA bypass using the cryptographic techniques already built into the operating systems, phones, and browsers in use already.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Starting Saturday at 8am, Kelly Drive inbound lanes will close from 25th Street to the parkway.
    Mike D'Onofrio, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
  • That campaign involves planting trees in parkways and along streets.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads.
    The Economist, 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, Fox News, 16 July 2018
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
  • Applications can be filled in person or by mail at Round Rock City Hall, 221 E. Main Street.
    Fernanda Figueroa, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Lego Christmas Village Building Kit This 1,514-piece set of Holiday Main Street from the Lego Winter Village Collection includes a buildable toy store, music store, apartments, Christmas tree, streetcar, accessories, and minifigures.
    Mia Huelsbeck, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The car was discovered after someone saw it in the interstate's westbound lane with flames in the back seat and dialed 911, according to the report.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Several interstates and highways in Maryland and West Virginia will likely get walloped by an incoming blizzard.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Sometimes called America's water superhighway, the Mississippi River plays a crucial role in transporting products through and out of the U.S.
    Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The Chippewa and Black rivers are tributaries of the Mississippi River, which has functioned as a superhighway for invasive carp to travel.
    Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In 1979, the fast food giant opened its first restaurant in Strasbourg and then strategically spread to all the big cities and, later, to all shopping centers, railways, and motorway service stations to reach as many consumers as possible.
    Alex Ledsom, Fortune Europe, 1 Dec. 2024
  • At real-world motorway speeds (ie, above 75 mph / 120 km/h), engine vibration was noticeable and on the verge of being unpleasant.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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