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a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
a cow wandered into the roadway
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Recent Examples of roadway
Flood warnings blanketed parts of northwestern Texas and southern Oklahoma on April 26, where more than 2 million people were warned to be ready to move to higher ground and avoid driving through flooded roadways, according to the National Weather Service.
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Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
On July 12 of that same year, 30,000 winegrowers gathered in the southern town of Béziers, parking their shiny new tractors right in the middle of major roadways.
— Made By History, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
The Moore Police Department said in a press release that its officers responded to the area of 12th Street and S Eastern Avenue on Saturday, April 19, to a swift water rescue involving two vehicles, one of which left the roadway and was swept under a bridge.
—David Chiu, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Davis said that is at least partially thanks to a massive project that elevated more than 3.5 miles of the Tamiami Trail, a roadway built in 1928 that runs through the Everglades from Miami to Naples before heading north to Tampa.
—David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
On July 12 of that same year, 30,000 winegrowers gathered in the southern town of Béziers, parking their shiny new tractors right in the middle of major roadways.
— Made By History, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
The Moore Police Department said in a press release that its officers responded to the area of 12th Street and S Eastern Avenue on Saturday, April 19, to a swift water rescue involving two vehicles, one of which left the roadway and was swept under a bridge.
—David Chiu, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Davis said that is at least partially thanks to a massive project that elevated more than 3.5 miles of the Tamiami Trail, a roadway built in 1928 that runs through the Everglades from Miami to Naples before heading north to Tampa.
—David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roadway
Noun
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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
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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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Into every corner it’s resolutely planted to the road and the small steering wheel gives it a racing car feel.—
Trinity Francis,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The museum tracing the company’s history is just across the road from the coffee shop where Bastiaan Riemersma is sitting.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
24 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
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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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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
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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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Two Turkey fans stood in the middle of a three-lane carriageway.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
6 July 2024
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The project, first launched in 2019, broke ground in February 2023 to connect the A417 highway bypass to the Cowley roundabout, a section of road that is currently a single-lane carriageway that slows traffic, transportation officials said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
10 May 2024
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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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“Roadway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roadway. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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