shunpike

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Noun
  • While sunlight melted snow in some areas on Wednesday, some school districts noted rural and side roads were still ice- and slush-covered in their announcements.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The side roads are not being paid attention to, with the city and the state concentrating most of their attention on the larger roads.
    Dale Ellis, arkansasonline.com, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Find the parallel streets because where everyone's going is the touristy area, but the parallel streets and the side streets are where the locals have their businesses.
    Meredith Lepore, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Later that night, those new measures were visible, but at least two side streets leading to Bourbon did not appear to be fully sealed off and had only lightweight bicycle rack-style barricades.
    Laura Strickler, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Travel is strongly discouraged, but if necessary, drivers are urged to slow down, maintain extra distance between vehicles, and exercise caution on bridges, overpasses, and secondary roads.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • On Saturday, officials in northern Alabama said schools could remain closed Monday if ice doesn't melt off secondary roads.
    SARA CLINE AND BEN FINLEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Low gas prices are expected to fuel high road traffic.
    Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • When the wagon trains started moving out West, when the boats were landing at the foot of Main street — then things started moving.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The new law has officials scrambling to create more shelter beds, so police have places besides jail to drop off people caught sleeping on the street.
    Michael Cuglietta, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Frantic body camera footage shows the moment a Miami Beach Police officer is shot by another officer A Miami Beach Police officer will not face criminal charges after accidentally shooting a fellow officer while responding to a call on a busy Florida roadway.
    Julia Bonavita, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Flanked by breweries and restaurants, the 2900 block of Larimer Street has been closed to cars since 2020, when businesses were given the city’s blessing to expand outdoor seating onto the roadway.
    Max Levy, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Dean will return to the road in February with dates throughout Texas, including a Feb. 16 show with Vandoliers.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2025
  • What To Know The advisory warned that road conditions could become hazardous, particularly during peak travel hours on Wednesday.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Southern whites imprisoned a disproportionately Black convict population, often for minor and outright fictional crimes, and put them to work, especially in building the highways that brought the South into the modern age.
    Justin Hawkins / Made by History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Trying to avoid a collision, both drivers veered toward the highway’s east shoulder, where the vehicles collided.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Shunpike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shunpike. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.

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