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Recent Examples of beltway
Outside the beltway, the biggest states have the heftiest number of federal workers: California (147,500 workers) and Texas (130,000 workers), according to Pew data.
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Nerdwallet, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025
Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Lawmakers from outside the beltway have lobbied for more flights to different parts of the country due to the airport’s convenience over the other two airports.
—Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Jan. 2025
Trucks carrying hazardous materials that used the bridge to cross the harbor are now forced to go around the beltway in the opposite direction (a 35-mile detour) due to cargo restrictions through Baltimore City traffic tunnels.
—April Quevedo, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
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Nerdwallet, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025
Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Lawmakers from outside the beltway have lobbied for more flights to different parts of the country due to the airport’s convenience over the other two airports.
—Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Jan. 2025
Trucks carrying hazardous materials that used the bridge to cross the harbor are now forced to go around the beltway in the opposite direction (a 35-mile detour) due to cargo restrictions through Baltimore City traffic tunnels.
—April Quevedo, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beltway
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More than 70,000 acres of parkway lands is covered in forest, with five distinct forest types bringing fall color right to your car window.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
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Nassau County police first received a description of the person who was fatally struck on the parkway and then received a call from Christopher's school roughly 15 minutes later about a missing boy, detective Tracey Cabey tells PEOPLE.—
Janelle Griffith,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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The truck became fully engulfed and the semi-trailer had also caught fire as CHP officers blocked the interstate at Fruitridge Road.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Routh allegedly fled the scene but was later arrested by a local sheriff's office on a nearby interstate.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
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Underwood has muscular dystrophy and has endured three heart attacks and a quadruple bypass.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
16 Sep. 2025
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Adversaries could use the system to generate malicious code or bypass safeguards, or find ways to manipulate outputs to generate harmful outputs.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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That is a critical step for Korea’s plan to build an energy superhighway to carry renewables across the nation.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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Don't let your investment in a state-of-the-art superhighway be compromised by an inability to see the traffic.—
Serge Lucio,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The final drive day sees guests back on the autobahn and up into the incredible views afforded along German Alpine Road.—
Duncan Madden,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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On the autobahn, Sport+ lowers the ride height and takes some camber off the wheels for better straight-line performance.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
7 Aug. 2025
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The northern part of the island was at a standstill, schools closed, traffic snailing down the motorway.—
Ariel Saramandi,
The Dial,
29 July 2025
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Police found Alia's head and the axe in a bag in her car, which Jesse R. was driving when arrested on the A4 motorway, according to the NL Times news site.—
Jason Lemon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 July 2025
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The same goes for the highway—in fact, potential customers would be hard-pressed to find better in this department for the price offered.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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Along a dirt road off the narrow highway that hugs the northern shore the taro leaves extend like waving hands from the quilt of rectangular pools so shallow that the birds in them stand with their leg joints exposed.—
Matt Negrin,
Rolling Stone,
20 Sep. 2025
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Nobody needed to learn to merge onto the actual freeway when these fast and wide sections of La Brea and La Cienega were freeway enough.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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In drone footage shared by San Francisco outlet KTVU, all lanes across Interstate 80 are blocked with traffic, with the chaos of the event spilling onto the freeway.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Beltway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beltway. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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