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as in street
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
a city famous for its broad, tree-lined avenues
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as in route
an established course for traveling from one place to another
the two main avenues available to those joining in the California gold rush were the trail across the Southwest desert or the hazard-filled loop around Central and South America
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Recent Examples of avenue
The Biden administration has delivered most of its relief through one of those avenues.
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Annie Nova, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2025
Another avenue for reversing the ban would be Congress repealing the statute, Moreland said.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
There’s no reason the man should get even that after he’s managed to worm out of all other avenues for criminal accountability.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
Infinite Attention At An Infinite Scale Generative AI can become your life-long companion across all avenues of your life.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Annie Nova, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2025
Another avenue for reversing the ban would be Congress repealing the statute, Moreland said.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
There’s no reason the man should get even that after he’s managed to worm out of all other avenues for criminal accountability.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
Infinite Attention At An Infinite Scale Generative AI can become your life-long companion across all avenues of your life.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for avenue
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Upon arrival, officers found an unresponsive male with apparent gunshot wounds lying in the street next to a vehicle parked in front of the address, according to the social media post.—
Lena Miano,
arkansasonline.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Robinson’s friend, Danny Shigemori, who has lived on the street for 55 years and ran a landscaping business, lost his place too.—
Jeffrey Fleishman,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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Families being told to abandon their cars on evacuation routes to flee on foot and convalescent home residents being pushed down the street in wheelchairs as hot embers fly around them are scenes usually witnessed only in the movies.—
Caitlin Clarkson Pereira,
Hartford Courant,
24 Jan. 2025
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But the route to developing practical and commercially viable quantum computers is far from clear, with multiple competing technologies and a host of organisations, large and small, racing to develop their own solutions.—
David Prosser,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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The school’s proximity to two major thoroughfares, 47th Street and Pulaski Road, makes walking and biking too dangerous for most other parents in the community, Galvez Searle said.—
Sarah Macaraeg,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2025
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The 405, the major thoroughfare connecting L.A. with the San Fernando Valley, remains open.—
Matteo Moschella,
NBC News,
12 Jan. 2025
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The Broncos are falling out of any at-large-berth conversation and into the territory where their only path to March Madness is a Mountain West Tournament championship.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
23 Jan. 2025
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The most common path founders take to turn an idea into a business is bootstrapping, relying on personal savings, support from friends and family, or even credit cards.—
Holly Eve,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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The Weather Channel is warning of slick roads and possible travel delays. Monday, with a high of just 25 and a low reaching around 10 degrees, is predicted to mark the beginning of a prolonged period of frigid conditions.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
18 Jan. 2025
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Aides expect Trump will return occasionally to Mar-a-Lago during the next four years, but for now, the show is moving 1,000 miles up the road.—
Jennifer Jacobs,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2025
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During the warm months of the long Southern California dry season, houses relied on a haphazard approach to passive cooling.—
Richard Olsen,
Forbes,
26 Jan. 2025
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When asked if any particular person has helped shape his approach to storytelling, the actor cited the indie filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2025
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Production has ceased on Season 2 of the Big Talk Studios series about an 18th-century highway robber, putting a cast and crew of hundreds out of work with nothing to show for their efforts.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
17 Jan. 2025
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Limited driving range tends to be an issue when driving longer distances on the highway, creating an additional incentive to conserve fuel.—
Peter Douglas,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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Range within the city is only around 120 miles (193 km) while cruising around on the freeway will decrease that number further to 71 miles (114 km).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Jan. 2025
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Where exactly on the freeway off-ramp was her daughter when she was struck and killed by a driver who kept going?—
Ryan Lillis,
Sacramento Bee,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Avenue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avenue. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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