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as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
I think we should take one of the less congested roads
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Recent Examples of road
The Jayhawks, in fact, on Sunday recorded the largest margin of victory by a road team in Big 12 Conference history.
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Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
The cases are in a rural part of Kwango province in southwestern Congo, which has limited access to laboratory testing and is difficult to reach by road, according to the WHO.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Nonetheless, the loss of a major player isn’t good for the roads, or even their competition like Waymo.
—Brad Templeton, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
At around 9:50 am, NYPD announced via loudspeaker that any workers who stood in the road would be arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
—Caroline Haskins, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
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Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
The cases are in a rural part of Kwango province in southwestern Congo, which has limited access to laboratory testing and is difficult to reach by road, according to the WHO.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Nonetheless, the loss of a major player isn’t good for the roads, or even their competition like Waymo.
—Brad Templeton, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
At around 9:50 am, NYPD announced via loudspeaker that any workers who stood in the road would be arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
—Caroline Haskins, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for road
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Speeds along most of the highways headed into and out of downtown were above 45 mph.Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025
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The administration has noted that heavy trucks do significant damage to the state’s highways and this fee enables Connecticut to force businesses based out-of-state to contribute toward infrastructure repair costs.Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2025
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The mythology surrounding James himself likewise had many authors, all converging toward portraying him as a dashing foe of the bankers and railroad barons who had come to represent the inequities of America’s Gilded Age.Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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By the 1950s, the railroad’s checkerboard sections of the Palm Springs area became wealthy and white while the Agua Caliente’s checkerboard sections on the reservation became the home of comparatively poorer Tribal communities.Michael Albertus, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
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There are street lights and sidewalks; a park and a half-dozen schools lie within walking distance.Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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The Florida native’s two career IndyCar wins have both come on street circuits (Long Beach, Nashville – 2023) and the 2021 INDY NXT by Firestone Series Champion made it to Victory Circle in his debut INDY NXT race on the iconic 14-turn Florida street course.Bruce Martin, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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Allcroft’s interest in the characters from this book series stemmed from her involvement in a 1979 documentary film about a railway in Sussex, which is featured in the books themselves.Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 3 Jan. 2025
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Firefighters responded to the area of the Lafayette Road railway overpass, near Union Gospel Mission and the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office, about 9 p.m. Wednesday.Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2025
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That triggered a new mandatory evacuation order for an area from Sunset Boulevard to Encino Reservoir, and from the 405 Freeway west to Mandeville Canyon, with sections of the thoroughfare remaining closed to ward off excess traffic in the West Los Angeles area.Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2025
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The once-leafy thoroughfares known as the Alphabet Streets now look like a nuclear bomb detonated at the Chase bank in the nearby shopping village.Will Carless, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
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Whether tearing up muddy roads, crawling up high-clearance 4×4 routes, trying to park my car in deep snow banks, or cruising freeways at 75 mph, the KO3 has always felt like a good choice.Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 2 Jan. 2025
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How To Watch the Rose Parade 2025 via Live Stream The 2025 Rose Parade will be streamed live on YouTube for free by Pasadena Star-News, with the stream based just before participants make their way below the 210 freeway bridge.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
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The city will run its Friday, Jan. 10 routes on Saturday, Jan. 11, according to a page on the city’s website.Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Jan. 2025
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Shorter runs, like one-star and zero-star, demand constant perfection amid routes that have been hyper optimized over time by others.Patricia Hernandez, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
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From the second half of the 20th century, pioneering thinkers such as American author and activist Jane Jacobs and Danish architect Jan Gehl began highlighting the inhuman way our cities were being shaped, with boring constructions, barren spaces and brutal expressways.Thomas Heatherwick, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2025
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The expressway runs from the regional capital Urumqi in northern Xinjiang to Yuli County in southern Xinjiang.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/road. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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