as in highways
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
one of the city's main thoroughfares
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Recent Examples of thoroughfares
Residents have told the Riverworks Development Corporation that many trucks use neighborhood roads instead of sticking to West Vienna Avenue and North Third Street, which are the two thoroughfares bordering the warehouse.
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Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The main thoroughfares, Bridge Street and Castlebar Street, are lined with homegrown shops, cafés, and pubs situated in historic buildings.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
For drivers, it is recommended to be incredibly cautious and perhaps being in the passenger seat is more fitting for this one, but rolling down main thoroughfares will show different angles of the city.
—Dana Afana, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Commissioners were divided over whether granting these variances would help welcome a popular new business or cause traffic and safety concerns along one of the city’s main north-south thoroughfares.
—Marie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Other strategies, like speed cushions, could take time to make it to 3rd Avenue because the street is a collector street, or a road that connects local roads with high-traffic thoroughfares.
—Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Fighting climate change with pedestrian infrastructure Gensler had ridden his bike to the cafe that morning along Northgate Boulevard and then San Juan Road — two major thoroughfares with fast-moving traffic and inadequate bike infrastructure.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
These nodes are like intersections of major thoroughfares in a road network.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
Officials do not block Canal, one of the city's most-trafficked thoroughfares.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The main thoroughfares, Bridge Street and Castlebar Street, are lined with homegrown shops, cafés, and pubs situated in historic buildings.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
For drivers, it is recommended to be incredibly cautious and perhaps being in the passenger seat is more fitting for this one, but rolling down main thoroughfares will show different angles of the city.
—Dana Afana, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Commissioners were divided over whether granting these variances would help welcome a popular new business or cause traffic and safety concerns along one of the city’s main north-south thoroughfares.
—Marie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Other strategies, like speed cushions, could take time to make it to 3rd Avenue because the street is a collector street, or a road that connects local roads with high-traffic thoroughfares.
—Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Fighting climate change with pedestrian infrastructure Gensler had ridden his bike to the cafe that morning along Northgate Boulevard and then San Juan Road — two major thoroughfares with fast-moving traffic and inadequate bike infrastructure.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
These nodes are like intersections of major thoroughfares in a road network.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
Officials do not block Canal, one of the city's most-trafficked thoroughfares.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thoroughfares
Noun
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Like highways before them, these assets require major upfront investment, deliver stable cash flows over decades, and serve as essential enablers of growth.—
Maurice Obeid,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Red and white English flags have proliferated along streets and been painted on roads.—
Vitalii Yalahuzian,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Nothing better than putting down the top and driving beautiful roads just after the rain stops and the air is powerfully charged by the nearby ocean, scrubbed clean.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Just this morning, DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI, and felony stalking.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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What’s most inspiring about these showings of texture on the streets of New York fashion week is that more times than not, Black women are not widely embraced in all of their glory to live in their textures during these occasions.—
Essence,
Essence,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Waymos have been driving freeways with no safety driver for some time now, but service is limited to Alphabet employees and empty vehicles.—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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However, at the time the area was rapidly changing as new homes were built and freeways constructed.—
Carolyn Burt,
Oc Register,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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On a spring day in 1869, at a salon on one of Paris’s bustling boulevards, a group of prominent thinkers — including some of Pasteur’s close colleagues — discussed science’s future.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Glória Funicular route is short but steep, beginning at the Praça dos Restauradores station in Baixa, right beside Avenida da Liberdade, one of Lisbon's grand boulevards.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Intelligent highway, city, and parking capabilities At the core of this technology is High-speed Navigation Cruise Assist, which allows the SUV to easily handle national highways, urban expressways, and ring roads.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 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,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Crews will also maintain safe travel routes to support twice-daily fuel convoys to the Wishon hydroelectric station.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Already, the agency has added new public education messaging inside buses and along routes, transit officials said.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Thoroughfares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thoroughfares. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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