as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
hair-raising tales of outlaws who ambushed coaches traveling the high roads
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Recent Examples of high road
Rounding out the top three is Switzerland, which also has a very low road traffic death rate of 2.2 per 100,000 people, low fuel and EV charging costs, and a very high road quality score of 6.3 out of 7.
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2024
Speeding isn’t the only reason why the US has such high road fatality rates.
—Marin Cogan, Vox, 13 May 2024
In the United States, thousands of ‘high road’ restaurants are paving the way to a better industry, not just leading with their great food but their values.
—Saru Jayaraman, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
If 2016 Obama was singing the virtues of the high road, firmly but selectively pushing back on a presidential candidate who had peddled falsehoods about her husband, her 2020 speech shot fire from that high road by using Trump’s words against him.
—Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2024
Speeding isn’t the only reason why the US has such high road fatality rates.
—Marin Cogan, Vox, 13 May 2024
In the United States, thousands of ‘high road’ restaurants are paving the way to a better industry, not just leading with their great food but their values.
—Saru Jayaraman, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
If 2016 Obama was singing the virtues of the high road, firmly but selectively pushing back on a presidential candidate who had peddled falsehoods about her husband, her 2020 speech shot fire from that high road by using Trump’s words against him.
—Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high road
Noun
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What To Know The advisory warned that road conditions could become hazardous, particularly during peak travel hours on Wednesday.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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Mayor vetoes measure increasing borrowing by $4 million for additional road repairs Johnson vetoed in full a measure that would borrow an additional $4 million to fund improvements to an additional 30 lane miles of roadway.—
Alison Dirr,
Journal Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2025
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Trying to avoid a collision, both drivers veered toward the highway’s east shoulder, where the vehicles collided.—
Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2025
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Southern whites imprisoned a disproportionately Black convict population, often for minor and outright fictional crimes, and put them to work, especially in building the highways that brought the South into the modern age.—
Justin Hawkins / Made by History,
TIME,
31 Jan. 2025
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The pilot and co-pilot were killed, the São Paulo state military police told Newsweek, and two people on the street where the aircraft crashed were injured.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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The production stole shots on the street amid the unsuspecting working-class pedestrians of Strasbourg–Saint-Denis, but Godard often used these images for absurd scenarios.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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Brown sets the tone early on when Darden has an exchange with one of his Black neighbors during Simpson’s famous freeway trek in the white Ford Bronco.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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The pup got off the freeway, and Godbehere — who’s a Yorkie owner herself — followed her using the cameras, officials said.—
Sara Schilling,
Sacramento Bee,
23 Jan. 2025
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Before being slowed, an evacuation warning had included Balboa Boulevard and the 5 freeway to the east and Tampa Boulevard to the west, stretching as far south as Rinaldi Boulevard, a main east-west thoroughfare in the northern valley.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2025
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The beachside thoroughfare reopened in Malibu up to Coastline Drive on the north end beginning at 8 a.m. Sunday, but remained closed except to residents and contractors between Coastline Drive and Entrada Drive for an additional day following a decision by Mayor Karen Bass’ office Saturday.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2025
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Since the accident above the Potomac River, the Federal Aviation Administration has indefinitely suspended the use of most of those routes.—
Andy Rose,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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Also, parents can help teens find the best route to take before getting behind the wheel.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
4 Feb. 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,
24 Jan. 2025
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The turnpike had become a major urban expressway, carrying more commuters than truckers or tourists, and the old fare cards were replaced by coin-toss baskets in the urban areas.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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Two Turkey fans stood in the middle of a three-lane carriageway.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
6 July 2024
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The project, first launched in 2019, broke ground in February 2023 to connect the A417 highway bypass to the Cowley roundabout, a section of road that is currently a single-lane carriageway that slows traffic, transportation officials said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
10 May 2024
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