1
as in streets
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
a city famous for its broad, tree-lined avenues
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2
as in paths
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 avenues
The stadium is located in Glendale, Arizona, near 95th and Maryland avenues.
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Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Westwood Northern Boulevard is expected to be closed for most of the morning between Wardell and Bourdinot avenues .
—Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
Skanda Gautam Singh noted that legal avenues exist for victims' families.
—Sonal Nain, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
But the pandemic also opened up different avenues for support, like telehealth.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Technology that opens up new avenues meets the hype in a way that AI replacing baby investment bankers or advertising studios just doesn’t.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The Jaguars allowed the lowest pass pressure rate in Week 1, so Cincinnati will have to blitz to get pressure this week, opening avenues for Lawrence to go after the Bengals’ subpar coverage players.
—Kc Joyner, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
However, Russia’s aggression and the resulting sanctions have closed off those avenues.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
But Stander and other preservationists are pursuing other avenues and got a boost last month.
—Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Westwood Northern Boulevard is expected to be closed for most of the morning between Wardell and Bourdinot avenues .
—Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
Skanda Gautam Singh noted that legal avenues exist for victims' families.
—Sonal Nain, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
But the pandemic also opened up different avenues for support, like telehealth.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Technology that opens up new avenues meets the hype in a way that AI replacing baby investment bankers or advertising studios just doesn’t.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The Jaguars allowed the lowest pass pressure rate in Week 1, so Cincinnati will have to blitz to get pressure this week, opening avenues for Lawrence to go after the Bengals’ subpar coverage players.
—Kc Joyner, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
However, Russia’s aggression and the resulting sanctions have closed off those avenues.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
But Stander and other preservationists are pursuing other avenues and got a boost last month.
—Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for avenues
Noun
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Just this morning, DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI, and felony stalking.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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What’s most inspiring about these showings of texture on the streets of New York fashion week is that more times than not, Black women are not widely embraced in all of their glory to live in their textures during these occasions.—
Essence,
Essence,
16 Sep. 2025
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After meeting in college, Katie and Hubbell continue to cross paths over the years, eventually getting married before their differing opinions and lifestyles get in the way.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
16 Sep. 2025
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Rising costs, shrinking margins, and uncertain downstream revenues mean buyers want not just artistry but clear commercial paths — awards buzz, international pre-sales, or genre hooks — that guarantee theatrical draw.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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Residents have told the Riverworks Development Corporation that many trucks use neighborhood roads instead of sticking to West Vienna Avenue and North Third Street, which are the two thoroughfares bordering the warehouse.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The main thoroughfares, Bridge Street and Castlebar Street, are lined with homegrown shops, cafés, and pubs situated in historic buildings.—
Shivani Vora,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Crews will also maintain safe travel routes to support twice-daily fuel convoys to the Wishon hydroelectric station.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Already, the agency has added new public education messaging inside buses and along routes, transit officials said.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Red and white English flags have proliferated along streets and been painted on roads.—
Vitalii Yalahuzian,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Nothing better than putting down the top and driving beautiful roads just after the rain stops and the air is powerfully charged by the nearby ocean, scrubbed clean.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Airlines start to release seats as the date of flying approaches.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
14 Sep. 2025
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Traditional approaches focus on financial engineering such as negotiating discounts for long-term commitments, or on observability tools that track who is running what.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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On highways and surface roads in the rural countryside west of Detroit, the 2025 Ford Explorer was smooth and quiet, with plenty of power for highway acceleration.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The latter riffs mythopoetically on the region’s aerospace industry, and the former features an anthropology of our freeways any native Angeleno could get behind.—
John Lopez,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
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The issue also clogged Bay Area freeways, where bumper-to-bumper traffic jammed up Interstates 80, 880 and 580 and Highways 13 and 24 more than usual for a Friday.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
5 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Avenues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avenues. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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