as in high road
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Recent Examples of dual carriageway
Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads.
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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, 16 July 2018
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, 16 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dual carriageway
Noun
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Getting Around Oslo With high road tolls and expensive, hard-to-find parking, driving in Oslo can quickly become a hassle, putting a damper on your weekend.—
David Nikel,
Forbes,
10 Oct. 2024
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The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.—
Allie Volpe,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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Or rivers like the Skykomish that flow into the Puget Sound, which used to be salmon superhighways but are now closed to sportfishing some years due to abysmal returns.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
15 May 2025
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The nerve is like a superhighway, connecting the brain to other organs such as the heart, lungs, and digestive system.—
Paul McClure
May 22,
New Atlas,
22 May 2025
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In addition to passing through different parts of the city, the route led them through suburban regions within London's M25 ring road.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Apr. 2025
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The London Orbital Motorway, or the M25, is a vast ring road that runs in a shaggy circle around the outer edges of the capital.—
Anna Russell,
The New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2025
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The infrastructure is reasonable, but much of the route takes you alongside motorways.—
Craig Martin,
Outside Online,
8 May 2025
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But driving 200 miles on motorways, backroads, and through towns and cities, saw 2.7mi/kWh at best, and this was during warmer weather.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Today, most houses on the street are appraised at $1 million or more.—
Hollace Ava Weiner,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 June 2025
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Like the old streets in so many cities, which were meant to bring out the history, turned out to be repetitions everywhere.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Among the improvements will be the widening of the road to accommodate dual right-turn lanes onto the interstate, a wrong-way-driver detection system and upgrading traffic signals, said transportation spokesman Guillermo Canedo.—
Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
30 May 2025
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Toward the end of chase, Allen exited the interstate and drove past several streets, then ran a red light and slammed into a sedan driven by 22-year-old Kevin Gramajo, who later died at a hospital, according to the incident report.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2025
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This is especially true given increasing reports of two-factor authentication (2FA) bypasses that are increasingly rendering basics forms of 2FA redundant.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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No cause of death has been given, though an official Facebook page for Derringer and his wife had detailed several health issues in recent months, including ankle bypass surgery (which creates a new pathway for blood to get around a blocked artery).—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
27 May 2025
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Several cyclists have been killed over the years along the causeway when motorists crossed into the bike lanes.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2025
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The bay, around the first bend from the lodge, is separated from the main lake by a railroad causeway built of ballast.—
Don Shiner,
Outdoor Life,
14 May 2025
Cite this Entry
“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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