as in street
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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Recent Examples of boulevard
Nguyen Hue Street, a pedestrian boulevard stretching to the Saigon River, is the heart of the city, with a plethora of bars, restaurants, and buzzing nightclubs.
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Chris Dong, AFAR Media, 2 Apr. 2025
Lisa led the way, phone in hand, through several small streets and out onto a wide boulevard, crowded even as shops were closing.
—Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025
They will be connected by a shared wall on multiple parcels in Culver City and Los Angeles surrounded by Venice, National and Washington boulevards.
—Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
American brands like Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Tesla, which once lined the boulevards of Paris, are becoming symbols of political resistance.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
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Chris Dong, AFAR Media, 2 Apr. 2025
Lisa led the way, phone in hand, through several small streets and out onto a wide boulevard, crowded even as shops were closing.
—Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025
They will be connected by a shared wall on multiple parcels in Culver City and Los Angeles surrounded by Venice, National and Washington boulevards.
—Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
American brands like Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Tesla, which once lined the boulevards of Paris, are becoming symbols of political resistance.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boulevard
Noun
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Others left in their cars, dodging bodies that lay in the streets.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant serves terrific pizza and even better cheesesteaks that draw long lines running down the street or, some days, up the street the other way, just to keep life interesting.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
13 Apr. 2025
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The suite also enables features like partial highway self-driving, automatic lane changes, on-ramp and exit navigation, and high-speed emergency collision avoidance, similar to the E8 system.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Apr. 2025
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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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Electric cars hit the roads and smart phones hit the stores.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Chubs had a long road to this seemingly happy ending.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Late night and early morning commuters can expect detours along the freeways linking Fort Worth to Weatherford this weekend.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2025
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The slow-speed pursuit traveled on freeways in Oceanside, Carlsbad and then back toward Escondido.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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Some Chicago expressways are already using ramp metering.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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Minutes before his disabled car was rear-ended in a hit-and-run crash that killed him, nightlife impresario Darryl Mathis Jr. was posting video to Instagram on the misfortune of being stranded on a Bronx expressway in the middle of the night.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
24 Mar. 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
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) first confirmed to PEOPLE that a Cessna 310 had crashed into a roadway on Friday, April 11, at around 10:20 a.m.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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The males that lived near busy roadways behaved more aggressively than those living farther away by approaching the speaker closely and repeatedly swooping low over it, probably in search of the intruder.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boulevard. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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