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I had heard there was a traffic jam on the highway, so I took the side roads.
the four-lane highway narrows to two lanes once you leave the city
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Six people, including two children, are dead after a person driving a pickup truck the wrong way on a Mississippi highway collided with a car.
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
The highway administration approves the plans; state and local jurisdictions oversee construction.
—Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Dec. 2024
The fall of Homs gives the insurgents control over Syria's strategic heartland and a key highway crossroads, severing Damascus from the coastal region that is the stronghold of Assad's Alawite sect and where his Russian allies have a naval base and air base.
—Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Timour Azhari, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
With a population of approximately 800,000 people and only one main highway snaking through its mountains and valleys — the capital city, Thimphu, is the only one in the world without a traffic light — Bhutan remains relatively unexplored.
—Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
The highway administration approves the plans; state and local jurisdictions oversee construction.
—Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Dec. 2024
The fall of Homs gives the insurgents control over Syria's strategic heartland and a key highway crossroads, severing Damascus from the coastal region that is the stronghold of Assad's Alawite sect and where his Russian allies have a naval base and air base.
—Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Timour Azhari, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
With a population of approximately 800,000 people and only one main highway snaking through its mountains and valleys — the capital city, Thimphu, is the only one in the world without a traffic light — Bhutan remains relatively unexplored.
—Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Highway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/highway. Accessed 20 Dec. 2024.
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highway
noun
high·way
ˈhī-ˌwā 
: a public road
especially
: a main direct road
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