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as in streets
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
a city famous for its broad, tree-lined avenues
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as in paths
an established course for traveling from one place to another
the two main avenues available to those joining in the California gold rush were the trail across the Southwest desert or the hazard-filled loop around Central and South America
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Recent Examples of avenues
The victim, 37-year-old Jose Alfredo Aguilar Candela, died in the side yard of a residence near Travis and West Baltimore avenues on the evening of July 1, according to medical examiner’s records.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 July 2026
Through public-private partnerships, NASA has joined in the effort to open new avenues for tourism and scientific research.
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Adam Stone,
USA Today,
3 July 2026
Those resources include avenues to help seniors maintain regular exercise, ongoing positive social connections, appropriate living situations, transportation and more.
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Rachel Brown Kirkland,
AJC.com,
2 July 2026
The report accuses the group of funding its programming through opaque and questionable avenues, including soliciting foreign funds, misleading donors and selling access to the president.
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
2 July 2026
This action appears part of a broader trend indicating the IRS is narrowing administrative avenues for international taxpayers to resolve past noncompliance.
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Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
The episode compounds concerns that the prediction sites create avenues for manipulation, either through insider information or other tactics, like engineering the outcomes being bet on.
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J.d. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
2 July 2026
And that looks like the amount Google will have to pay since there are no further avenues for appeal.
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Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
2 July 2026
The commission resolution, approved June 26 with Commissioner Miguel Gabela absent, instructs City Attorney George Wysong to explore legal avenues to blunt Live Local’s impact on the city, including potentially suing the state.
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Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2026
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 July 2026
Through public-private partnerships, NASA has joined in the effort to open new avenues for tourism and scientific research.
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Adam Stone,
USA Today,
3 July 2026
Those resources include avenues to help seniors maintain regular exercise, ongoing positive social connections, appropriate living situations, transportation and more.
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Rachel Brown Kirkland,
AJC.com,
2 July 2026
The report accuses the group of funding its programming through opaque and questionable avenues, including soliciting foreign funds, misleading donors and selling access to the president.
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
2 July 2026
This action appears part of a broader trend indicating the IRS is narrowing administrative avenues for international taxpayers to resolve past noncompliance.
—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
The episode compounds concerns that the prediction sites create avenues for manipulation, either through insider information or other tactics, like engineering the outcomes being bet on.
—
J.d. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
2 July 2026
And that looks like the amount Google will have to pay since there are no further avenues for appeal.
—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
2 July 2026
The commission resolution, approved June 26 with Commissioner Miguel Gabela absent, instructs City Attorney George Wysong to explore legal avenues to blunt Live Local’s impact on the city, including potentially suing the state.
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Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for avenues
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On Tuesday, more than a million fans took to the streets to celebrate Mexico’s advancement to the World Cup’s round of 16, a feat the national team hadn’t achieved since 1986, and with each victory, the human tide grows.
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Officers kept some witnesses at the scene for questioning and blocked off streets in the area.
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This isn't burnout, but profound uncertainty stemming from AI disruption, economic instability, and evolving career paths.
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The paths through the bush are infested with these ticks, as are many back yards.
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From the dramatic California coast to the historic thoroughfares of New England, the United States is brimming with scenic drives.
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Foot traffic has slowed to a trickle, and the restaurant’s layout — with an almost entirely open wall that looks onto one of Boyle Height’s busiest thoroughfares — isn’t helping.
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The borough added that collection days are not changing, only the start time of the pickup routes.
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The model has structure in abundance and routes almost none of it toward meaning or mobility.
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Rodríguez denied those claims, saying some remote areas were difficult to reach because roads were blocked by landslides and debris, forcing authorities to rely on motorcycles, drones and satellite imagery.
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The roads can become extremely dangerous during this period because of fog, smoke, black ice and poor visibility.
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Relatedly, as the film's release on June 26 rapidly approaches, there's new box office tracking data out.
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
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As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the museum offers a patriotic lens into how the canals, highways, railroads and mines that stitched this country together were built by machines born in American factories.
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The state issued a strong warning urging residents to prepare for a large aftershock, and to stay off freeways if possible.
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Another lithium-ion fire in 2024 forced authorities to close one of the major freeways leading out of the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach for a day.
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“Avenues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avenues. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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