parkway

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Recent Examples of parkway On August 25, 1991, a set of remains bound at the ankles and covered with a board was found in a grassy area at the intersection of two Queens, New York parkways, according to a press release from District Attorney Melinda Katz's office. Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2024 At Lakewood Forest Preserve near Wauconda, a shingle oak tree stands in the parkway holding all of its brown and curled leaves on a foggy February day. Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025 The parkway, which divides Northlake Commons shopping center and Northlake Mall, is owned by the mall, according to the lawsuit. Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2025 Still, even some officials off-put by the tone of the message have urged MnDOT to continue to keep at-grade boulevard or parkway options, at least for a point of comparison to other concepts. Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parkway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parkway
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The actor has undergone a quadruple heart bypass and has diabetes, according to his lawyer.
    John Leicester, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
  • This unwanted disclosure breached the privacy that judicial bypass is meant to protect.
    Kate Coleman-Minahan, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Outside the beltway, the biggest states have the heftiest number of federal workers: California (147,500 workers) and Texas (130,000 workers), according to Pew data.
    Nerdwallet, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the snow eased and major highways reopened, strong winds and travel warnings remained.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Yet another sinkhole has opened on Interstate 80 through Wharton, N.J., closing the heavily trafficked highway in both directions on Wednesday and into Thursday.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • During my test driving, which comprised about 45 miles, in a variety of modes and at a variety of speeds including close to 100mph on a German autobahn, the car achieved close to 3 miles per kWh.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The other side: Richmond, Virginia, is a veritable autobahn by comparison, with drivers making the same distance trip in under 10 minutes on average.
    Shawna Chen, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The zone includes anything within a 30-mile radius of Beverly and La Cienega boulevards (the historic home of the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers), as well as certain other locations like Castaic, Pomona and the Ontario airport.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Spend the afternoon strolling the scenic Venice Canals, which were built in 1905 by developer Abbot Kinney, and his eponymous boulevard, which has become a haven for designers local as well as far-flung.
    Sheila Yasmin Marikar, AFAR Media, 19 Mar. 2025

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“Parkway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parkway. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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