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Recent Examples of motorway
Drive down the motorway in Auckland, and there’s a chance your vehicle will be swarmed and overtaken by dozens of bikies out on a weekend ride.
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Todd Symons, CNN Money, 24 Dec. 2025
Redouane, a 20-year police veteran who spends his nights chasing smugglers on Belgium’s busy motorway network, also features in the film.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
Redouane, a police officer for 20 years, spends his nights chasing smugglers on Belgium’s busy motorway network.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
Questions remain on how infrastructure cost, power grid integration, and billing models will scale for longer stretches of motorway.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
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Todd Symons, CNN Money, 24 Dec. 2025
Redouane, a 20-year police veteran who spends his nights chasing smugglers on Belgium’s busy motorway network, also features in the film.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
Redouane, a police officer for 20 years, spends his nights chasing smugglers on Belgium’s busy motorway network.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
Questions remain on how infrastructure cost, power grid integration, and billing models will scale for longer stretches of motorway.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motorway
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The state could build a high-speed autobahn for a fraction of the cost to move residents from the southern half of the state to the northern half and vice versa.—
John Moorlach,
Oc Register,
14 Dec. 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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Lamont, who tried unsuccessfully to convince legislators in 2019 and 2020 to approve electronic tolling on state highways, warned in November that Connecticut might need to curb borrowing for highway, bridge and rail repairs.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
5 Feb. 2026
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Many of those original roads have faded away, swallowed by high-speed highways or erased by suburban expansion.—
Josh Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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The interstate, which closed in both directions Friday evening, reopened around noon Saturday.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
10 Feb. 2026
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The casino is bereft of any architectural aspiration; many new warehouses along the interstate are more interesting.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Those bogus images and videos spread not just on X, but also along other superhighways of falsehoods, notably the Meta platforms Instagram, Facebook and Threads, albeit with less engagement.—
James Warren,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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But it was actually set in motion a year ago, when the Midcontinent Independent System Operator – the power grid operator for the central United States – approved a suite of projects to build a transmission superhighway across the upper Midwest.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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The driver was dumping dirt into a nearby construction zone and left the trailer up while merging onto the freeway.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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The 688 is likely to suffer from slow commute times due to the issues described above, as well as service disruption caused by frequent freeway crashes (35 crashes a day in our county in 2022).—
Chris Roberts,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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At peak periods, the lookout has drawn thousands of people a day, overwhelming narrow access roads and limited parking facilities.—
Trista Kurniawan,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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The Hogs never trailed in their second straight road win.—
Matt Byrne,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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There’s also a Huracán Polizia version The Italian Highway Patrol uses a Huracán with police badging and a lightbar on the autostradas in and around Bologna.—
Sean Evans,
Robb Report,
2 Apr. 2024
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Barreling down the autostrada, idling in front of our hotel, or stopping for gas, coffee, or red lights, the wagon drew constant admiration and approval.—
Tony Quiroga,
Car and Driver,
12 Aug. 2023
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Worthington spent his first years in France on a meagre wage, grateful that the club paid his expenses for trundling up and down the autoroute in his Fiat Punto: a 14-hour round trip to Lyon, a 16-hour there and back to Marseille.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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The bridge carries the A75 autoroute across the Tarn valley, stretching 2,460 meters.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Motorway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motorway. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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