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as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
I think we should take one of the less congested roads
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Recent Examples of road
For instance, Pakistan has been active in China’s signature belt and road initiative which involves the construction of multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects across countries.
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Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
The Illinois Department of Transportation owns the road and any changes would require its approval.
—Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025
Those improvements would remove thousands of vehicle-hours from our roads, saving motorists gas money and reducing greenhouse gases emissions.
—John Franklin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
The Chubs had a long road to this seemingly happy ending.
—Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
The Illinois Department of Transportation owns the road and any changes would require its approval.
—Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025
Those improvements would remove thousands of vehicle-hours from our roads, saving motorists gas money and reducing greenhouse gases emissions.
—John Franklin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
The Chubs had a long road to this seemingly happy ending.
—Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for road
Noun
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Fewer vehicles on our roads also lessen the need for costly and harmful highway expansions, which consistently fail to reduce traffic.—
Jill Locantore,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2025
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Here's what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Like the 19th-century railroad industry—where true economic transformation stemmed from cities and industries enabled by railroads—rockets are infrastructure enabling a larger economic ecosystem.—
Reema Khan,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Bertha sets her sights on a prize that would elevate the family to unimaginable heights; George risks everything on a gambit that could revolutionize the railroad industry.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
17 Apr. 2025
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Safer streets, stronger neighborhoods, and city services that actually serve.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant serves terrific pizza and even better cheesesteaks that draw long lines running down the street or, some days, up the street the other way, just to keep life interesting.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
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While Father Vitalii was growing up in Rivne, his father, a railway engineer and former Soviet soldier, had discouraged him from pursuing a military career of his own.—
Dominique Soguel,
Christian Science Monitor,
21 Apr. 2025
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This means strengthening and building fuel tanks, skeletal bases with paved parking areas and bunkers, fiber-optic cables, and even railway sidings to permit rapid unloading of trains.—
Barry R. Posen,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Apr. 2025
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The northernmost stretches of the road, and other thoroughfares stitching together Fort Worth’s northern outskirts, have had to cope with intense population booms in recent years.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
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The investigation has streets blocked around the intersection of two main thoroughfares, Northwest 183rd Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue.—
David J. Neal,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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On the somewhat obscure 78 freeway north of San Diego the Navigator consistently dealt with surrounding traffic by maintaining safe distances with driver involvement.—
Karl Brauer,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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What To Know At about 1:30 a.m. Friday morning, Landeros' vehicle was seen traveling on the I-10 freeway near the city of Beaumont.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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American military veteran hijacks plane in Belize, officials say The airplane, which had only 14 passengers on board, had been due to fly the short route from Corozal near the Mexican border to San Pedro, a popular tourist destination off the coast.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Amanda McPherson, 38, and Johnathon McPherson, 27, were caught when detectives discovered seemingly unrelated cases of fraud shared the same postal routes, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in an April 17 news release.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 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,
21 Apr. 2025
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The highway has over twice the average crash rate of Missouri expressways.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/road. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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