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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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But Pike — like many others here — knows that the thousands of dogs roaming freely between the desert landscape and people's homes serve as a superhighway for ticks.—
Pien Huang,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2025
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Think of it as a superhighway connecting two bustling cities, allowing seamless and efficient communication.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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According to a statement from England’s motorway maintenance company National Highways, the coffin dates back more than 1,500 years to Britain’s Roman era.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Jan. 2025
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They can be taken anywhere on local roads but not on motorways and not yet within the London Congestion Charging zone, though access to central London is in the works.—
Nicole Kobie,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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The pilot and co-pilot were killed, the São Paulo state military police told Newsweek, and two people on the street where the aircraft crashed were injured.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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Several loads of fresh fish have been offered for sale on main street this week.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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California has 16 border protection stations placed along the state’s domestic borders on 14 major highways and interstates.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Feb. 2025
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The 26-year-old could face the death penalty if convicted on federal of using a firearm to commit murder and interstate stalking resulting in death.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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From the polio vaccine, to decoding the first human chromosome, to the first heart bypass surgery, American research has originated a seemingly endless list of health care advances that are taken for granted.—
Jane Smith-Rogers,
WIRED,
1 Feb. 2025
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Which is a problem, given high-speed brute-force password attacks on Microsoft users, poor router password security issues, 2FA bypass attacks and sign-in-with-Google hacking tactics being exploited.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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But to the north, at Martin’s property, which sits on a quiet piece of Brickell Avenue between the causeway and Vizcaya Museum and Gardens that’s lined with multi-million-dollar estates, the bluff runs just above the Biscayne Bay shoreline.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
14 Jan. 2025
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Israeli troops connected the causeway with a point on the Gaza shore.—
Stephen J. Beard,
USA TODAY,
17 May 2024
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“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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