as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
we took back roads on the way out, and the thruway on the way back
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Recent Examples of thruway
Several people have been hospitalized after a huge motor pile-up involving at least 25 vehicles on a major thruway in Maryland Saturday morning.
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Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024
Interstate 10 and Highway 11 near New Orleans were closed in the morning on Tuesday and Wednesday due to poor visibility on the major thruways, causing dangerous driving conditions.
—Max Golembo, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
Russian officials had earlier shut down the Kerch Bridge, citing fears of an attack on the key thruway, but traffic has since resumed over the bridge, Russian state-run news agencyTass reported.
—Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
Laundry room Check for leaks around the standpipe — the thruway where water discharges from the washing machine — and make sure the drain hose hasn’t come loose.
—Jerica Pender, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
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Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024
Interstate 10 and Highway 11 near New Orleans were closed in the morning on Tuesday and Wednesday due to poor visibility on the major thruways, causing dangerous driving conditions.
—Max Golembo, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
Russian officials had earlier shut down the Kerch Bridge, citing fears of an attack on the key thruway, but traffic has since resumed over the bridge, Russian state-run news agencyTass reported.
—Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
Laundry room Check for leaks around the standpipe — the thruway where water discharges from the washing machine — and make sure the drain hose hasn’t come loose.
—Jerica Pender, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thruway
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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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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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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Safer streets, stronger neighborhoods, and city services that actually serve.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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Others left in their cars, dodging bodies that lay in the streets.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
20 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
Noun
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Harper and his work crew were patching the turnpike with the right lane closed when he was hit, the West Virginia Department of Transportation said in a news release.—
Natalie Demaree,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2025
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Motorists who drive on the turnpike and don’t already have a DriveKS account will be contacted by mail about how to pay tolls online.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Thruway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thruway. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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