dual carriageway

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of dual carriageway Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads. The Economist, 23 May 2020 The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Fox News, 16 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dual carriageway
Noun
  • The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Low gas prices are expected to fuel high road traffic.
    Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Think of it as a superhighway connecting two bustling cities, allowing seamless and efficient communication.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Sometimes called America's water superhighway, the Mississippi River plays a crucial role in transporting products through and out of the U.S.
    Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • People were living in deep poverty right there in Oxford, on the ring road and in the outer suburbs, beyond the university.
    Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena.
    James Horncastle, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
Noun
  • The cabin is generally quiet even at motorway speeds.
    James Morris, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In 1979, the fast food giant opened its first restaurant in Strasbourg and then strategically spread to all the big cities and, later, to all shopping centers, railways, and motorway service stations to reach as many consumers as possible.
    Alex Ledsom, Fortune Europe, 1 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • There are street lights and sidewalks; a park and a half-dozen schools lie within walking distance.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Standing as tall as six stories, these large structures with mansard roofs provided modern apartments while, along with the broad streets, gave Paris a visual unity—along with giving ample subject matter to the Impressionists for their paintings!
    Ashley Gardini, JSTOR Daily, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The states with the worst showing on the U-Haul index, as with the Census interstate migration data, also tend to be those without a Right-to-Work law.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The wolf or wolves that crossed Interstate 70 for the first time in November remained in the mountains around Leadville, south of the interstate.
    Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Now security researchers have disclosed details of a successful bypass of Apple security protections to hack the iPhone USB-C controller.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Dead woody material is hard and can often give a pair of bypass pruners trouble.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Two were to be placed on the causeway’s south side while another would rise on the north side.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The southbound ramp, connecting the causeway to U.S. 1/South Dixie Highway, will stay open.
    Adlai Coleman, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024

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“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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