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Recent Examples of ring road
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.
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Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
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
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
Guo and Cui have lived in Beijing all their lives and have barely travelled outside of the second ring road, a rectangular beltway built in the 1980s around central Beijing, with an area roughly equivalent to the size of the old city.
—Qiang Xiaoji, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2015
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Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
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
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
Guo and Cui have lived in Beijing all their lives and have barely travelled outside of the second ring road, a rectangular beltway built in the 1980s around central Beijing, with an area roughly equivalent to the size of the old city.
—Qiang Xiaoji, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
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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
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The authentication bypass allows hackers to create a URL that accesses an emergency access page for Passwordstate.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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Downtown Denver rises above Speer Boulevard, a historic parkway in the city.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Blue Ridge Mountains are one of the country’s most recognizable natural features, and the 469-mile parkway that run along their length, from Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Shenandoah National Park, is a Southern icon.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
13 Aug. 2025
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Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
23 May 2020
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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,
Fox News,
16 July 2018
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Participants in the Peoples Convoy of truckers protesting pandemic restrictions drive the beltway around Washington near Cabin John, Maryland, on March 6, 2022.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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Over time, her responsibilities grew: in 2001, she was asked to oversee AMLO’s marquee project, a four-hundred-million-dollar renovation of Mexico City’s beltway.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Festival is being expanded to Sixth Street and Main Street this year.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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Stroll along Main Street for eclectic shops, local dining, and colorful murals, or hop on the Great Allegheny Passage trail, which runs right through town.—
Abby Price,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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The carp escaped into the Mississippi River, which has functioned as a superhighway to travel north.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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The northern part of the island was at a standstill, schools closed, traffic snailing down the motorway.—
Ariel Saramandi,
The Dial,
29 July 2025
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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
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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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