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as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
I think we should take one of the less congested roads
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Recent Examples of road
The national government has encouraged the building of roads and other infrastructure projects to try to address the loss of construction jobs at real estate developers.
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Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Others have been dreading it—and would happily finagle a deal with the universe to skip to some other day four years down the road instead.
—Angela Haupt, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
The 26-year-old is a prolific performer, rarely taking a break from the road.
—Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
The roads around the White House and the U.S. Capitol will be closed.
—Cate Martel, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
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Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Others have been dreading it—and would happily finagle a deal with the universe to skip to some other day four years down the road instead.
—Angela Haupt, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
The 26-year-old is a prolific performer, rarely taking a break from the road.
—Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
The roads around the White House and the U.S. Capitol will be closed.
—Cate Martel, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for road
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Stacey Miranda: … and had he not been stuck on the railroad tracks, this still might not be a solved case.—
Anne-Marie Green,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2025
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The nearly 30-year-old span in far north Fort Worth is awash in rolling green pastures cut up by railroad tracks and pockmarked with an ever-growing number of housing and commercial developments.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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The new law has officials scrambling to create more shelter beds, so police have places besides jail to drop off people caught sleeping on the street.—
Michael Cuglietta,
Orlando Sentinel,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The film, which made its world premiere at the International Film Festival of India last year, follows a meticulous railway ticket checker whose discovery of minor bank discrepancies leads him down a dangerous path of systemic corruption.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 Jan. 2025
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Moscow also hopes to build a railway through Iran that would connect Russia directly with ports on the Persian Gulf.—
Ivan Nechepurenko,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The school’s proximity to two major thoroughfares, 47th Street and Pulaski Road, makes walking and biking too dangerous for most other parents in the community, Galvez Searle said.—
Sarah Macaraeg,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2025
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The 405, the major thoroughfare connecting L.A. with the San Fernando Valley, remains open.—
Matteo Moschella,
NBC News,
12 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Range within the city is only around 120 miles (193 km) while cruising around on the freeway will decrease that number further to 71 miles (114 km).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Jan. 2025
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Laurie was on the freeway, driving back to Las Flores from her job at the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, when her daughter Amber texted her that the electricity in their house had gone out because of a windstorm that had picked up that morning.—
Emily Witt,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Families being told to abandon their cars on evacuation routes to flee on foot and convalescent home residents being pushed down the street in wheelchairs as hot embers fly around them are scenes usually witnessed only in the movies.—
Caitlin Clarkson Pereira,
Hartford Courant,
24 Jan. 2025
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City planner Nathan Koster told the council that more property owners along the route were open to recurring or regular closures of the intersection.—
Kyle Stokes,
Axios,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Vasquez forgets that Chicago isn’t New York, and neither is our traffic, which is most problematic on the expressways and main arteries, not in a South Loop business district, which was almost devoid of traffic, human or vehicular, during the first part of rush hour on Monday morning.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2025
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This three-phase project began in 2023 and should improve the expressway for the 275,000 drivers who use it daily.—
Justin Kaufmann,
Axios,
17 Dec. 2024
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“Road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/road. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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