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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.
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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
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
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The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.—
Allie Volpe,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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Low gas prices are expected to fuel high road traffic.—
Alysa Guffey,
The Indianapolis Star,
27 Nov. 2024
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This behavioral hijacking turns what should be a reproductive dead end into a superhighway for infection.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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From the quiet fields of rural India to the deserts of northern Mexico runs an international migration superhighway, funneling tens of thousands of Indians to the U.S. border each year.—
Matt Rivers,
ABC News,
12 Feb. 2025
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The London Orbital Motorway, or the M25, is a vast ring road that runs in a shaggy circle around the outer edges of the capital.—
Anna Russell,
The New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2025
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Projects include installing additional 50-amp outlets to the inner ring road, security lighting, and 50-amp outlets to the east parking lot and to the area west of the grandstand. ATTORNEY: Approved a resolution to hire Thomas Borgen as assistant McLeod County attorney.—
Janean Sorrell,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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In other words, a half-hour break every two hours at motorway speeds will make long journeys viable.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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To be built close to junction 10 of the M1 motorway for easy access by car, it was intended to have a removable grass pitch, which would have made Luton the first club to use such technology.—
Tom Burrows,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
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Whoever first hawked the product on the streets of the Windy City, only Rueckheim was able to turn it into an American institution.—
Teddy Brokaw,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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In the heart of West Philadelphia, where Will Smith was born and raised, there is now a street named in his honor.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The Honda driver swerved to avoid the stopping device and continued on the interstate, according to the warrant affidavits.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
27 Mar. 2025
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Those traveling by the site on the interstate are able to get a peek at production as vehicles travel by conveyor belt from the paint shop to the general assembly area of the plant.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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These rental platforms build in sophisticated defenses to avoid detection and bypass filters and security nets, usually leveraging legitimate cloud services.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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But for the gun possession charges subject to the bypass program, prosecutors were approving those in around 90% of cases and generally handling them by phone, said Yvette Loizon, chief of policy at the state’s attorney’s office.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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The barges then thrust out long extendable bridges, forming a 2,700-foot causeway that links the vessels together and connects to the shore.—
Chris Buckley,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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The company operates 155 buses on the causeway, comprising about a quarter of the group’s fleet.—
Jonathan Burgos,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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