ring road

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of ring road 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 The Russians created a similar situation in early 2022, storming across the northern border, occupying villages and small towns, and reaching the ring road that circumscribes Kharkiv. Constant Méheut, New York Times, 12 May 2024 The last major piece of road building in Bengaluru was an outer ring road built 24 years ago. IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ring road 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
  • Now security researchers have disclosed details of a successful bypass of Apple security protections to hack the iPhone USB-C controller.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Dead woody material is hard and can often give a pair of bypass pruners trouble.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Her skeletal remains were then discovered near the junction of two parkways in Queens on August 25, 1991, but her identity remained a mystery—until now.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The '80s are out: West Des Moines' older office buildings between 22nd and 50th streets were once regional draws, but attention has shifted as businesses seek out newer developments near Jordan Creek and Grand Prairie parkways.
    Linh Ta, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
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
  • Trucks carrying hazardous materials that used the bridge to cross the harbor are now forced to go around the beltway in the opposite direction (a 35-mile detour) due to cargo restrictions through Baltimore City traffic tunnels.
    April Quevedo, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 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
Noun
  • Gomez was located at the North Main Street location until last summer and moved to 1325 NW.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The Old Saybrook location was on Main Street in that popular shoreline town.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Between the lines: Last year, a group of residents and organizations formed the Reimagine 175 coalition to advocate for converting the interstate into a street-grade boulevard.
    Kathryn Varn, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Choose tools that match your organization’s technical proficiency; don’t buy a Ferrari for someone who’s never going to drive on the interstate.
    Cory McNeley, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Think of it as a superhighway connecting two bustling cities, allowing seamless and efficient communication.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Sometimes called America's water superhighway, the Mississippi River plays a crucial role in transporting products through and out of the U.S.
    Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The cabin is generally quiet even at motorway speeds.
    James Morris, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In 1979, the fast food giant opened its first restaurant in Strasbourg and then strategically spread to all the big cities and, later, to all shopping centers, railways, and motorway service stations to reach as many consumers as possible.
    Alex Ledsom, Fortune Europe, 1 Dec. 2024

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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