ring road

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of ring road 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 Judge Alexander Milne has also barred the three Just Stop Oil activists from taking part in any protest action within the M25, the major ring road in London. Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2024 The march was due to end in front of parliament, further along the capital's inner ring road. Reuters, 3 Oct. 2024 In July, Judge Hehir sentenced a group of Just Stop Oil activists to four- and five-year sentences over a campaign to disrupt traffic on the M25, the major ring road in London. Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 26 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for ring road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
  • These rental platforms build in sophisticated defenses to avoid detection and bypass filters and security nets, usually leveraging legitimate cloud services.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • But for the gun possession charges subject to the bypass program, prosecutors were approving those in around 90% of cases and generally handling them by phone, said Yvette Loizon, chief of policy at the state’s attorney’s office.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Honda driver exited the parkway at Dyckman St. in Inwood about 4:55 a.m. and crashed into a building just off the exit on the edge of Inwood Hill Park.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The Bynum Mounds, Emerald Mound and other sites along the parkway highlight the densely populated Native American landscape that once existed in the region.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • Little Rock, 1911: Main Street has seen many parades over the decades, but none larger or longer than that for the closing day of the United Confederate Veterans reunion.
    Ray Hanley, Arkansas Online, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Park City’s historic Main Street, lined with shopping and dining venues, is just 15 minutes away.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That’s expected to translate to a 108% increase in traffic on the northern section between Overland and Victory roads, just south of the interstate.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The crash, which involved multiple vehicles, prompted a temporary shutdown of the interstate as first responders arrived on scene.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This behavioral hijacking turns what should be a reproductive dead end into a superhighway for infection.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • From the quiet fields of rural India to the deserts of northern Mexico runs an international migration superhighway, funneling tens of thousands of Indians to the U.S. border each year.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In other words, a half-hour break every two hours at motorway speeds will make long journeys viable.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • 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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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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