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
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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high road
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Traffic camera footage at 67th and Orangewood avenues showed two gray sedans speeding down the road a little after noon.Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Then a very gray-looking Ian gingerly makes his way outside to hug everyone goodbye, waving as their cart disappears down the road.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 22 Nov. 2024
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The fire erupted Wednesday morning in Ventura County and, fueled by ferocious Santa Ana winds and dry conditions, quickly exploded in size and jumped a highway toward homes, forcing more than 10,000 people to evacuate.Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
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Esther Gonzalez’s body was found in a snowpack off a highway near Banning, California, on Feb. 10, 1979, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
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In Al-Nabi Chit, unlike many nearby places that have become ghost towns, the streets bustle with men, women, and children.Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Rich Graeter, Graeter's Ice Cream Company president and CEO Louis and Regina Graeter started making vanilla ice cream in a metal bucket on the streets of Cincinnati after the Civil War.Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 21 Nov. 2024
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The mall is an elegy for what mid-20th-century politicians and progressives imagined downtown Los Angeles could be: a city with a vibrant core, accessible by freeways, anchored by a City Hall with encomiums inscribed above entrances exalting the public good.Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Parts of four metro Phoenix freeways will be closed or restricted this weekend, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
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States and cities can work together to fix legacy highways — and federal support can help In Portland, Oregon, pretty much everyone seems to agree that 82nd Avenue, a major thoroughfare that the state manages, is a disaster.David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
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On dreary days, spend a few hours at the National Museum of Scotland and the National Galleries of Scotland; when the weather cooperates, journey down the Royal Mile (Old Town’s main thoroughfare) and hike up to Arthur’s Seat, an ancient volcano and the highest peak in Holyrood Park.Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2024
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New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you.Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2024
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Hunter gave up a touchdown in coverage on a go route down the sideline, his first such offense of the season.Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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The turnarounds are often over or under a freeway or expressway.Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2024
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The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn is just a few blocks from Costco, between the expressway and the water.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Sep. 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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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 1 Dec. 2024.
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