as in highways
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
one of the city's main thoroughfares
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Recent Examples of thoroughfares
Residents have told the Riverworks Development Corporation that many trucks use neighborhood roads instead of sticking to West Vienna Avenue and North Third Street, which are the two thoroughfares bordering the warehouse.
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Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The main thoroughfares, Bridge Street and Castlebar Street, are lined with homegrown shops, cafés, and pubs situated in historic buildings.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
For drivers, it is recommended to be incredibly cautious and perhaps being in the passenger seat is more fitting for this one, but rolling down main thoroughfares will show different angles of the city.
—Dana Afana, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Commissioners were divided over whether granting these variances would help welcome a popular new business or cause traffic and safety concerns along one of the city’s main north-south thoroughfares.
—Marie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Other strategies, like speed cushions, could take time to make it to 3rd Avenue because the street is a collector street, or a road that connects local roads with high-traffic thoroughfares.
—Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Fighting climate change with pedestrian infrastructure Gensler had ridden his bike to the cafe that morning along Northgate Boulevard and then San Juan Road — two major thoroughfares with fast-moving traffic and inadequate bike infrastructure.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
These nodes are like intersections of major thoroughfares in a road network.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
Officials do not block Canal, one of the city's most-trafficked thoroughfares.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The main thoroughfares, Bridge Street and Castlebar Street, are lined with homegrown shops, cafés, and pubs situated in historic buildings.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
For drivers, it is recommended to be incredibly cautious and perhaps being in the passenger seat is more fitting for this one, but rolling down main thoroughfares will show different angles of the city.
—Dana Afana, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Commissioners were divided over whether granting these variances would help welcome a popular new business or cause traffic and safety concerns along one of the city’s main north-south thoroughfares.
—Marie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Other strategies, like speed cushions, could take time to make it to 3rd Avenue because the street is a collector street, or a road that connects local roads with high-traffic thoroughfares.
—Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Fighting climate change with pedestrian infrastructure Gensler had ridden his bike to the cafe that morning along Northgate Boulevard and then San Juan Road — two major thoroughfares with fast-moving traffic and inadequate bike infrastructure.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
These nodes are like intersections of major thoroughfares in a road network.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
Officials do not block Canal, one of the city's most-trafficked thoroughfares.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thoroughfares
Noun
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On highways and surface roads in the rural countryside west of Detroit, the 2025 Ford Explorer was smooth and quiet, with plenty of power for highway acceleration.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Red and white English flags have proliferated along streets and been painted on roads.—
Vitalii Yalahuzian,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Nothing better than putting down the top and driving beautiful roads just after the rain stops and the air is powerfully charged by the nearby ocean, scrubbed clean.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Just this morning, DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI, and felony stalking.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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What’s most inspiring about these showings of texture on the streets of New York fashion week is that more times than not, Black women are not widely embraced in all of their glory to live in their textures during these occasions.—
Essence,
Essence,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The latter riffs mythopoetically on the region’s aerospace industry, and the former features an anthropology of our freeways any native Angeleno could get behind.—
John Lopez,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
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The issue also clogged Bay Area freeways, where bumper-to-bumper traffic jammed up Interstates 80, 880 and 580 and Highways 13 and 24 more than usual for a Friday.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Glória Funicular route is short but steep, beginning at the Praça dos Restauradores station in Baixa, right beside Avenida da Liberdade, one of Lisbon's grand boulevards.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Sofia rests on ancient Roman ruins—its skyline pierced by golden Orthodox domes, leafy parks, and boulevards humming with espresso cafés and bookstalls.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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The signals are designed to improve traffic flow on congested expressways.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Crews will also maintain safe travel routes to support twice-daily fuel convoys to the Wishon hydroelectric station.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Already, the agency has added new public education messaging inside buses and along routes, transit officials said.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The strong currents from flash floods can pull drivers off roadways.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The strong currents from flash floods can pull drivers off roadways.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Thoroughfares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thoroughfares. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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