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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
Traffic camera footage at 67th and Orangewood avenues showed two gray sedans speeding down the road a little after noon.
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Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium basketball arena is in no way connected to the enslavers, but the family was trustees and donors to the nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where a road on campus remains shamefully named after them.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Gaetz faces a potentially tough road to Senate confirmation despite the incoming Republican majority of the upper chamber.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
The singer was 17 when his Ford pickup truck traveled 175 yards off the road and struck a garage in which 54-year-old Larry Duane Parris was working in Spartanburg, S.C.
—Rachel Desantis, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium basketball arena is in no way connected to the enslavers, but the family was trustees and donors to the nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where a road on campus remains shamefully named after them.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Gaetz faces a potentially tough road to Senate confirmation despite the incoming Republican majority of the upper chamber.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
The singer was 17 when his Ford pickup truck traveled 175 yards off the road and struck a garage in which 54-year-old Larry Duane Parris was working in Spartanburg, S.C.
—Rachel Desantis, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for road
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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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Taylor works out of a squat, grayish building on a residential street near the railroad tracks.Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2024
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According to The Associated Press, the tradition of early voting in the town was introduced to accommodate railroad workers who did not have time to vote in the normal working day.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 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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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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His father was a railway signalman, his mother a maid.Reuters, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
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The tablet was first discovered in 1913 near Israel's southern coast during railway construction.Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 19 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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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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The freeway sections that would be repaired date to 1974.Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 21 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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“Road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/road. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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