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Admittedly, provincial elites and warlords treated crossings like personal tollbooths.
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George Gavrilis, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
Photo: Courtesy Larkin Square Buffalo, which stands at the western end of the Erie Canal, once served as a sort of industrial tollbooth between the East Coast and the Midwest and between the U.S. and Canada.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Sep. 2024
The real world is the mind-blowingly elaborate fiction of jobs, cellphones, forks, tollbooths, Hulu passwords, and dental appointments that engulfs us every day and consumes us completely.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
The two prison guards who died in the attack last month, at a highway tollbooth about 85 miles northwest of Paris, were the first to be killed in the line of duty in 32 years.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 5 June 2024
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George Gavrilis, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
Photo: Courtesy Larkin Square Buffalo, which stands at the western end of the Erie Canal, once served as a sort of industrial tollbooth between the East Coast and the Midwest and between the U.S. and Canada.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Sep. 2024
The real world is the mind-blowingly elaborate fiction of jobs, cellphones, forks, tollbooths, Hulu passwords, and dental appointments that engulfs us every day and consumes us completely.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
The two prison guards who died in the attack last month, at a highway tollbooth about 85 miles northwest of Paris, were the first to be killed in the line of duty in 32 years.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 5 June 2024
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“Tollbooth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tollbooth. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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tollbooth
noun
toll·booth
ˈtōl-ˌbüth 
: a booth where tolls are paid
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