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Recent Examples of ring road
Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
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There’s no way to steal, bypass, copy or leak a passkey.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Gather Your Tools Heavy-duty leather gloves or rose gauntlets, sharp bypass pruners, a pair of loppers, a rake, and a bucket or wheelbarrow for debris will make speedy work of pruning Knock Out roses.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Apr. 2025
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Zoom in: The final phase includes resurfacing both the northbound and southbound lanes between George Flagg and West Martin Luther King Jr. parkways.—
Jason Clayworth,
Axios,
25 Mar. 2025
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In contrast, streets have water, sewer and gas mains, as well as adjacent sidewalks, trees and parkways.—
Nara Schoenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Mar. 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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Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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Environmental nonprofits and clean-energy groups voiced similar statements of outrage while beltway groups representing fossil fuels cheered Zeldin's announcements.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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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
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The shop’s location on busy Main Street/Route 72 puts it near a several of other businesses, including a gas station, and in close proximity Route 25.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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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
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Authorities closed that side of the interstate, and traffic soon was gridlocked in the immediate area and south to Interstate 8 and beyond as police tried to talk the man down to safety.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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This behavioral hijacking turns what should be a reproductive dead end into a superhighway for infection.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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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
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Armed marauders have killed scores of civilians and security forces in recent months and kidnapped hundreds of Nigerians from villages, schools, and motorways across the country.—
Fola Aina,
Foreign Affairs,
5 May 2021
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Currently, most rapid-charging stations on UK motorways are 50kW, which will do the same 80 per cent top-up in around an hour, while a 7kW home wallbox will fully charge the New 500 in around six hours.—
Vicky Parrott,
WIRED,
1 Sep. 2020
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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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