parkway

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Recent Examples of parkway The killings of Thomas, 27, and Dowski, 21, were among at least eight murders and disappearances of young people that occurred along or near the parkway and its surrounding areas between 1986 and 1989, the FBI said. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026 Trump says about $2,000 tariff dividend checks 🛣️ This parkway has existed for over 10,000 years. Will Richmond, The Providence Journal, 14 Jan. 2026 On the day before Thanksgiving at Milwaukee’s Congress School off the Lincoln Creek parkway on the city's west side, students were out for fall break but the school was abuzz. Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 1 Dec. 2025 There is a parkway planting of desert willows on the east side of Hayvenhurst Avenue, south of Magnolia Boulevard in Encino. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parkway
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Noun
  • The interstate, which closed in both directions Friday evening, reopened around noon Saturday.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The casino is bereft of any architectural aspiration; many new warehouses along the interstate are more interesting.
    Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Taylor Swift talked about caring for her father after his quintuple bypass surgery last summer.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Unlike traditional high-bypass turbofan engines, open-fan designs feature exposed fan blades, allowing for larger diameters with lower aerodynamic drag.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 2 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Temperatures may dip below 10° outside of the beltway and low to mid-teens across the immediate metro.
    Steven Sosna, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In recent days, as Netflix became an increasingly serious contender to take over the storied, century-old studio home to the The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, and The Lord of the Rings, the service faced pushback both within Hollywood’s 30-mile zone and inside the Washington beltway.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • He had been found in the snow by the motorway heading to the airport, and after his stomach had been pumped at Sabbatsberg Hospital he was taken to Beckomberga.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Leeds United’s home, nestled by the side of the M621 motorway around the edges of the city, looks tired in places.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Titman, Garcia Flores and Queener were all killed in the same crash on Northgate and Del Paso boulevards, an intersection next to the onramp to Highway 160.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The overall scale and architecture of the resort—vast public areas, wide corridors, and internal boulevards—help with navigation for wheelchair users.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2026

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“Parkway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parkway. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.

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