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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
Noun
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In January 2024, the state completed the $1.6 billion Wekiva Parkway, an elevated superhighway designed to protect wildlife and limit the sprawl of residential subdivisions.—
Martin E. Comas,
Orlando Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2025
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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
Noun
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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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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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The interview started with a second apology from the man who was late due to a crash on the motorway.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
6 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
Noun
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The Bentley Road bridge is one component of a $540 million overhaul of the intersecting interstates, an undertaking designed to accommodate population swells on Fort Worth’s western outskirts.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Mar. 2025
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As of Tuesday morning, crews spread 1.8 million gallons of brine on hundreds of miles of interstates, highways and secondary roads, Stein said.—
Joe Marusak and,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Feb. 2025
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The actor has undergone a quadruple heart bypass and has diabetes, according to his lawyer.—
John Leicester,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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This unwanted disclosure breached the privacy that judicial bypass is meant to protect.—
Kate Coleman-Minahan,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
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Along the causeway that borders both a freshwater pond and a tidal marsh and on the park’s branching nature trails, guests can spot more than 300 winged species—and perhaps glimpse alligators or sea turtles too.—
Casey Barber,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Johor-Singapore causeway is considered the world’s busiest land border with over 300,000 people passing through the immigration checkpoint daily.—
Jonathan Burgos,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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