as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
there's an accident on the main artery into town, so I'll be late
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Recent Examples of artery
Mixson needed emergency open-heart surgery to bypass two arteries.
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Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2025
As the West becomes increasingly dry and a growing population consumes more water, this key transboundary artery is dwindling.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 2 Apr. 2025
Indirect effects such as new high blood pressure accelerated plaque buildup in the arteries
The study found that Black adults with colorectal cancer faced a 74 percent higher risk of death from heart complications.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Mar. 2025
Although Joshua seemed healthy prior to the move, he was rushed to a hospital on Friday, March 28, and suffered a heart attack, sepsis and clogged arteries, his mother, Sylvia Johnson, previously told ABC affiliate WSB.
—David Chiu, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2025
As the West becomes increasingly dry and a growing population consumes more water, this key transboundary artery is dwindling.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 2 Apr. 2025
Indirect effects such as new high blood pressure accelerated plaque buildup in the arteries
The study found that Black adults with colorectal cancer faced a 74 percent higher risk of death from heart complications.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Mar. 2025
Although Joshua seemed healthy prior to the move, he was rushed to a hospital on Friday, March 28, and suffered a heart attack, sepsis and clogged arteries, his mother, Sylvia Johnson, previously told ABC affiliate WSB.
—David Chiu, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for artery
Noun
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Fewer vehicles on our roads also lessen the need for costly and harmful highway expansions, which consistently fail to reduce traffic.—
Jill Locantore,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2025
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Here's what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The northernmost stretches of the road, and other thoroughfares stitching together Fort Worth’s northern outskirts, have had to cope with intense population booms in recent years.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
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The investigation has streets blocked around the intersection of two main thoroughfares, Northwest 183rd Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue.—
David J. Neal,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The road that leads to the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit to Canada, is notoriously difficult to navigate, even for locals.—
Jasmine Garsd,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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The museum tracing the company’s history is just across the road from the coffee shop where Bastiaan Riemersma is sitting.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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On the somewhat obscure 78 freeway north of San Diego the Navigator consistently dealt with surrounding traffic by maintaining safe distances with driver involvement.—
Karl Brauer,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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What To Know At about 1:30 a.m. Friday morning, Landeros' vehicle was seen traveling on the I-10 freeway near the city of Beaumont.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Others left in their cars, dodging bodies that lay in the streets.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant serves terrific pizza and even better cheesesteaks that draw long lines running down the street or, some days, up the street the other way, just to keep life interesting.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But much of its route runs along East Washington, an arterial managed by Wisconsin, and the state transportation department prevented Madison from making the entire BRT lane bus-only during rush hour.—
David Zipper,
Vox,
13 Nov. 2024
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In San Antonio, for instance, the city negotiated for years with the Texas DOT to add sidewalks and bike lanes to Broadway, a state arterial with seven lanes.—
David Zipper,
Vox,
13 Nov. 2024
Noun
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American military veteran hijacks plane in Belize, officials say The airplane, which had only 14 passengers on board, had been due to fly the short route from Corozal near the Mexican border to San Pedro, a popular tourist destination off the coast.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Amanda McPherson, 38, and Johnathon McPherson, 27, were caught when detectives discovered seemingly unrelated cases of fraud shared the same postal routes, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in an April 17 news release.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2025
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The highway has over twice the average crash rate of Missouri expressways.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Artery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artery. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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