as in road
a street that is designed to connect to another street only at one end
Our house is located on a quiet cul-de-sac.
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Recent Examples of cul-de-sac
Nestled on a private cul-de-sac, the eight-bedroom estate includes a pool, sauna, steam room, and home theater.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2025
Spotted these days on everything from quiet cul-de-sacs to bustling main streets, golf carts are no longer just for the fairway.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
On the day before Thanksgiving in 2023, three distinct cracks of gunfire erupted from a mobile home on a cul-de-sac in southern Tarrant County.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2025
The house where Ritu lived is gone, and so are the houses around it; there is a cul-de-sac there now.
—Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2025
Spotted these days on everything from quiet cul-de-sacs to bustling main streets, golf carts are no longer just for the fairway.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
On the day before Thanksgiving in 2023, three distinct cracks of gunfire erupted from a mobile home on a cul-de-sac in southern Tarrant County.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2025
The house where Ritu lived is gone, and so are the houses around it; there is a cul-de-sac there now.
—Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cul-de-sac
Noun
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The project aims to remove more than 1 million heavy goods vehicles from roads in the western Alps between France and Italy.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Most of them are going to come down to track position, pit strategy, executing on pit road.—
Lydia Mee,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Residents have told the Riverworks Development Corporation that many trucks use neighborhood roads instead of sticking to West Vienna Avenue and North Third Street, which are the two thoroughfares bordering the warehouse.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Since its opening in mid-June, the experimental project has driven a 25 percent increase in total sales across the West Nanjing Road thoroughfare.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
5 Sep. 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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The plan for the roadway that stretches across the Hagginwood and Del Paso Heights neighborhoods of North Sacramento will later go before the City Council for approval.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
17 Sep. 2025
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On a spring day in 1869, at a salon on one of Paris’s bustling boulevards, a group of prominent thinkers — including some of Pasteur’s close colleagues — discussed science’s future.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
15 Sep. 2025
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And there’s nothing tomblike about the constant rumble of traffic from the boulevard outside.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Photographs have shown large potholes on certain stretches and, at the scene, The Athletic was told that parts of the carriageway were so badly affected that ambulance drivers preferred to use only the fast (left) lane rather than crossing from one side to the other.—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
4 July 2025
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Tucked behind locked iron gates on one of the Village’s most storied carriageways, the one-bedroom, two-bathroom residence is a fusion of historic charm and modern refinement.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
29 Apr. 2025
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Westwood Northern Boulevard is expected to be closed for most of the morning between Wardell and Bourdinot avenues .—
Jennifer Edwards Baker,
The Enquirer,
12 Sep. 2025
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Skanda Gautam Singh noted that legal avenues exist for victims' families.—
Sonal Nain,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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There have been close to 50 deaths in the past decade on the A9, Scotland’s longest road, which has gained notoriety for its regular changes from single to multiple-lane highway.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
20 Sep. 2025
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In its 60th year, this will be the first Flood Run since lane splitting and filtering became legal, according to a release from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety and the Minnesota Motorcycle Safety Center.—
Mars King,
Twin Cities,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Cul-de-sac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cul-de-sac. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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