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Recent Examples of beltway
Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
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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
On the other hand, most policymakers inside the beltway view this regulatory framework as sacred.
—Norbert Michel, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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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
On the other hand, most policymakers inside the beltway view this regulatory framework as sacred.
—Norbert Michel, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beltway
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Southbound lanes of the parkway were shut down between Maryland Route 97 and Powder Hill Road following the crash and were fully reopened around 9:30 a.m. Friday.—
Todd Karpovich,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Apr. 2025
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By the numbers: About 50,000 drivers use the parkway on an average day.—
Cuneyt Dil,
Axios,
4 Apr. 2025
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He was arrested a short time later driving on a nearby interstate.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2025
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Most Popular Large contaminated CT industrial site visible from interstate wins $5.4M boost for redevelopment Could UConn women’s basketball repeat as NCAA champion?—
Abbey Mastracco,
Hartford Courant,
13 Apr. 2025
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There’s no way to steal, bypass, copy or leak a passkey.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Gather Your Tools Heavy-duty leather gloves or rose gauntlets, sharp bypass pruners, a pair of loppers, a rake, and a bucket or wheelbarrow for debris will make speedy work of pruning Knock Out roses.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Apr. 2025
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This behavioral hijacking turns what should be a reproductive dead end into a superhighway for infection.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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From the quiet fields of rural India to the deserts of northern Mexico runs an international migration superhighway, funneling tens of thousands of Indians to the U.S. border each year.—
Matt Rivers,
ABC News,
12 Feb. 2025
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During my test driving, which comprised about 45 miles, in a variety of modes and at a variety of speeds including close to 100mph on a German autobahn, the car achieved close to 3 miles per kWh.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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The other side: Richmond, Virginia, is a veritable autobahn by comparison, with drivers making the same distance trip in under 10 minutes on average.—
Shawna Chen,
Axios,
8 Jan. 2025
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The power delivery is incredible, and this is particularly surprising when accelerating from around 50mph on a motorway.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Armed marauders have killed scores of civilians and security forces in recent months and kidnapped hundreds of Nigerians from villages, schools, and motorways across the country.—
Fola Aina,
Foreign Affairs,
5 May 2021
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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
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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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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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“Beltway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beltway. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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