traffic cone
noun
: a conical marker used on a road or highway (as for indicating an area under repair)
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Fences, orange traffic cones, cement barricades and heavy machinery have condensed and diverted traffic, down to one lane in many places, through an obstacle course while construction workers erect a new path for city buses along the center of the avenue.
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Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
Blake said his family was surveying the damage Sunday when his sister, Sarah, noticed what looked like an orange traffic cone at first.
—Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
One night, counterprotesters attacked the encampment, throwing traffic cones and firing pepper spray, with fighting that continued for hours, injuring more than a dozen people, before police stepped in.
—Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
At a trucking school in New Jersey, students are maneuvering 18-wheelers around traffic cones.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
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Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
Blake said his family was surveying the damage Sunday when his sister, Sarah, noticed what looked like an orange traffic cone at first.
—Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
One night, counterprotesters attacked the encampment, throwing traffic cones and firing pepper spray, with fighting that continued for hours, injuring more than a dozen people, before police stepped in.
—Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
At a trucking school in New Jersey, students are maneuvering 18-wheelers around traffic cones.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
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“Traffic cone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traffic%20cone. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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