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
  • And Microsoft embraced neutrality after heavy unionA Since the NLRB will be weak for quite a while but a new study by The Center for Work And Democracy at Arizona State University identifies workers can influence a high road economy that go beyond traditional collective bargaining.
    Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But the former president didn’t stay on that high road for long.
    Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The documentary, executive produced by Susan Chun, gives a rare look at how Ecuador became a narco superhighway.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The carp escaped into the Mississippi River, which has functioned as a superhighway to travel north.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, while many visitors like to take in the otherworldly sights of this mystical country by driving its ring road, the best, and easily most relaxing way, is to explore everything Iceland has to offer by sea.
    Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The birthday festivities include a wide range of events, from neighborhood festivals, the closure of the A10 ring road and a grand parade of tall ships culminating in a big party on the actual anniversary date of October 27, 2025.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • The northern part of the island was at a standstill, schools closed, traffic snailing down the motorway.
    Ariel Saramandi, The Dial, 29 July 2025
  • Police found Alia's head and the axe in a bag in her car, which Jesse R. was driving when arrested on the A4 motorway, according to the NL Times news site.
    Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • Trump maintains the ability to have National Guard troops and federal agencies continue to patrol city streets beyond his federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Cause of crash is being investigated Videos of the accident show the carriage toppled to its side and crashed into a building on the steep and narrow street, with parts of the streetcar crumpled.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Routh allegedly fled after the agent fired at him, and was later arrested after being stopped on a nearby interstate.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Originally built in 1959, the bridge connects Gardner over I-35 and it’s used as the city’s southern access point to the interstate, Edgerton and nearby warehouses, according to Johnson County Post Reporting.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her 48-year-old father, Zach Barton, stayed in the hospital for 11 days and underwent triple bypass surgery.
    Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The authentication bypass allows hackers to create a URL that accesses an emergency access page for Passwordstate.
    Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Results from advanced water testing in a Southwest Florida bay traced horse DNA to bacteria found around a causeway, adding fuel to a long-standing debate that horses contaminate the waterway.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • As the tour ended on a strip of land near the causeway, attendees stepped out of their cars and waited for the bats.
    Calista Oetama, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025

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“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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