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Recent Examples of interstate
In 2023, nearly 1,200 people died on freeways and interstates, which aren’t designed for pedestrians.
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Tanya Mohn, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Baumeister is also suspected of being the I-70 Strangler, who in the 1980s and 1990s met his victims at clubs along interstates in Indiana and Ohio, murdering at least 11 boys and men, according to NBC 5 Chicago.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 3 July 2025
Regardless, Pawlicki thinks that small, cheap interventions must inform solutions for how to improve quality of life in near-downtown neighborhoods severed by interstates 50 years ago.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 4 July 2025
These three phases include the pump station installation, railroad bridge replacements and the interstate widening between Regina Graeter Way and Ohio 126/Galbraith Road.
—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Tanya Mohn, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Baumeister is also suspected of being the I-70 Strangler, who in the 1980s and 1990s met his victims at clubs along interstates in Indiana and Ohio, murdering at least 11 boys and men, according to NBC 5 Chicago.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 3 July 2025
Regardless, Pawlicki thinks that small, cheap interventions must inform solutions for how to improve quality of life in near-downtown neighborhoods severed by interstates 50 years ago.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 4 July 2025
These three phases include the pump station installation, railroad bridge replacements and the interstate widening between Regina Graeter Way and Ohio 126/Galbraith Road.
—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interstate
Noun
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Hill said resort partners and others along the Strip encouraged the pilot and were intrigued about a version of an underground highway stretching to other parts of the city.—
Stuart Dyos,
The Tennessean,
30 July 2025
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The project began to take shape roughly five years ago after the Texas Department of Transportation announced plans to lower I-35 through downtown between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Holly Street as part of a massive expansion of the highway.—
Ella McCarthy,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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WisDOT's latest study proposes a more traditional intersection to connect with the freeway.—
Tom Daykin,
jsonline.com,
29 July 2025
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The center, just off the 5 freeway on Culver Drive, now has the unique distinction of offering two Japanese grocery stores: Mitsuwa and Tokyo Central.—
Samantha Gowen,
Oc Register,
28 July 2025
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The carp escaped into the Mississippi River, which has functioned as a superhighway to travel north.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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Obama doesn't get nearly enough flack for the NATO bombing campaign in Libya, one of the most short-sighted and memory-holed American military actions in history that had the twofer effect of destroying that entire country while also opening up a superhighway of mass immigration into Europe.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 June 2025
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Regular guy Arthur Dent, while trying to prevent his house from getting demolished in favor of a new motorway, gets launched into space when aliens similarly blow up the planet in favor of progress.—
Brian Boone,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
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Officials from the Canton of Solothurn said the walker noticed the brick fragments and stones near the motorway bridge along the A1 motorway in Luterbach, according to a May 20 Facebook post.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2025
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With extreme heat currently gripping vast swathes of the United States and Europe, subjecting tens of millions of people to dangerous temperatures far above what is usual for this time of year, even Germany’s famed autobahn is buckling under the strain, requiring emergency repairs.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Sep. 2019
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Beer plays Laura, a piano student at a music academy in Berlin, first seen in the opening shots on an autobahn overpass looking down at a river.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
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As Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed its 6-foot-tall lunar lander on the moon’s surface around 2:34 a.m. Sunday morning, cheers erupted at the watch party at Haute Spot in Cedar Park, just down the road from where 50 Firefly operators monitored the landing.—
Karoline Leonard,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Several road projects are in progress around the new Department of Veterans Affairs medical center on Brownsboro Road, which is scheduled to open to patients in 2026.—
Leo Bertucci,
The Courier-Journal,
29 July 2025
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The two-lane scenic parkway winds 469 miles over mountain ridges in Virginia and North Carolina.—
Mark Price
July 16,
Charlotte Observer,
16 July 2025
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The conservancy protects and advocates for a system of 17 parks and six parkways in Louisville designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, one of only a handful of complete systems in the country.—
Connor Giffin,
The Courier-Journal,
3 July 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,
28 July 2025
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Interstate 35 is born & more residents displaced Just a year after the viaduct opened, the City Plan Commission released an engineering report calling for a network of expressways to and through the city center, including a series of new highways cutting through the already struggling West Side.—
Elijah Winkler,
Kansas City Star,
27 July 2025
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“Interstate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interstate. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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