traffic circle

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Recent Examples of traffic circle Despite the order to remove the posters, on Friday afternoon there was still one on Piazza Mazzini, one of the city’s busiest traffic circles, in a well-heeled residential area. Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024 Tesla may get really good at navigating freeways, intersections, and traffic circles but make little progress on avoiding wet cement or understanding the hand signals of police officers. Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 May 2024 The final result was about 50 cars going 40-50 mph around the traffic circle, with 20 stuntmen on the ground plus Reeves. Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024 From protesting in traffic circles to spearheading massive demonstrations, women are not just symbolizing freedom but also taking tremendous risks—in some cases, losing their lives—to demand it. Zoe Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for traffic circle 
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Noun
  • New roundabouts and other road projects are taking shape in Carmel.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Jeremy Cashman, Carmel's chief infrastructure officer, said his department measured the speeds of vehicles entering and exiting roundabouts throughout the city.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • These are seen on the drive mode rotary dial and other roller controls, as well as the gear selector.
    Karl Brauer, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Consider joining or getting more heavily involved in an organization – rotary, garden club, biker gang, whatever suits your fancy.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The direction of this acceleration points toward the center, and its magnitude depends on the radius of the circle (r) and the speed (v): But what causes an object to accelerate?
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In this formulation, caffeine constricts blood vessels to reduce puffiness and dark circles, while Caudalie’s patented ingredient, Viniferine is a natural compound derived from grapevine sap and stalks, to help reduce hyperpigmentation by inhibiting melanin production.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Interchange revenues fell by 12% to $48.4 million, impacted by a decrease in purchase volume and a lower effective interchange rate.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • More:Man dead after crashing head-on into tree in south Louisville The interchange at I-265 and New Cut Road closed to traffic shortly after the crash, but at 7:27 a.m., Louisville Metro Emergency Services reported the roadway had reopened.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 3 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In America, horror is a cloverleaf: at once a bound reality and a recurring spectacle, shared and remixed online, appropriated and made a fool of by soulless pundits on Fox News.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 28 May 2022
  • One of those projects is the Interstate 75 interchange at Fruitville Road in Bradenton, which will be transformed from a traditional cloverleaf configuration into a diverging diamond design.
    Steve Wilson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Sep. 2024

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