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Projects include installing additional 50-amp outlets to the inner ring road, security lighting, and 50-amp outlets to the east parking lot and to the area west of the grandstand.
ATTORNEY: Approved a resolution to hire Thomas Borgen as assistant McLeod County attorney.
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Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
People were living in deep poverty right there in Oxford, on the ring road and in the outer suburbs, beyond the university.
—Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena.
—James Horncastle, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
Guo and Cui have lived in Beijing all their lives and have barely travelled outside of the second ring road, a rectangular beltway built in the 1980s around central Beijing, with an area roughly equivalent to the size of the old city.
—Qiang Xiaoji, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2015
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Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
People were living in deep poverty right there in Oxford, on the ring road and in the outer suburbs, beyond the university.
—Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena.
—James Horncastle, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
Guo and Cui have lived in Beijing all their lives and have barely travelled outside of the second ring road, a rectangular beltway built in the 1980s around central Beijing, with an area roughly equivalent to the size of the old city.
—Qiang Xiaoji, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
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As such, the attack is more accurately classified as a FIDO downgrade attack, not a bypass.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
18 July 2025
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The modernization project has also included the construction of a Red-Purple bypass meant to unsnarl traffic near the busy Belmont station, the rebuilding of tracks between Belmont and West Cornelia Avenue and the installation of a new signal system between the Howard and Belmont stations.—
Talia Soglin,
Chicago Tribune,
18 July 2025
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Noah Thompson, 24, and one of his four passengers, 22-year-old Jewel Perez, were initially listed in critical condition after Thompson slammed into a concrete divider while going east on the parkway toward the Cross Bay Blvd.—
Sheetal Banchariya,
New York Daily News,
7 July 2025
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The fireworks are best viewed from the parkway between Eakins Oval and Logan Circle.—
Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
23 May 2020
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The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
16 July 2018
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Participants in the Peoples Convoy of truckers protesting pandemic restrictions drive the beltway around Washington near Cabin John, Maryland, on March 6, 2022.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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Over time, her responsibilities grew: in 2001, she was asked to oversee AMLO’s marquee project, a four-hundred-million-dollar renovation of Mexico City’s beltway.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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The plane ultimately landed on a hill behind a Circle K gas station on Greenwood's Main Street.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
31 July 2025
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According to the Danville Police Department, officers responded just after 11:30 a.m. to reports of a man on fire outside the offices of Showcase Magazine on Main Street.—
Christina Coulter,
People.com,
30 July 2025
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Austin found land close to the new interstate and built a new drive-in, the Loner (1968–78), bringing the Duchess to a close in September 1968.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 July 2025
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Regulators said the proposal might have also slowed deliveries, hurt already-low driver pay and pushed more heavy truck traffic onto side streets instead of interstates.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
24 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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Police found Alia's head and the axe in a bag in her car, which Jesse R. was driving when arrested on the A4 motorway, according to the NL Times news site.—
Jason Lemon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 July 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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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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