parkway

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Recent Examples of parkway The tree in her parkway was a direct hit to the house she’s lived in for 40 years. Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025 Within a stone’s throw of the apartment site, the parkway features wildlife underpasses and bridges that soar over the Wekiva River without impeding its natural current of spring water. Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2025 Southbound lanes of the parkway were shut down between Maryland Route 97 and Powder Hill Road following the crash and were fully reopened around 9:30 a.m. Friday. Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2025 By the numbers: About 50,000 drivers use the parkway on an average day. Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parkway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parkway
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Over time, her responsibilities grew: in 2001, she was asked to oversee AMLO’s marquee project, a four-hundred-million-dollar renovation of Mexico City’s beltway.
    Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • There are about 545 active capital projects planned for this year on state highways, bridges and roads.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
  • This case follows another that occurred in 2018, when armed men kidnapped two members of the musical group Los Norteños de Río Bravo, whose bodies were later found on the federal highway connecting Reynosa to Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • The infrastructure is reasonable, but much of the route takes you alongside motorways.
    Craig Martin, Outside Online, 8 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Beer plays Laura, a piano student at a music academy in Berlin, first seen in the opening shots on an autobahn overpass looking down at a river.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
  • During my test driving, which comprised about 45 miles, in a variety of modes and at a variety of speeds including close to 100mph on a German autobahn, the car achieved close to 3 miles per kWh.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The roadway will become a boulevard similar to national park roads, Botich said.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
  • The Santa Monica Pier, specifically north of Pico and south of Wilshire boulevards, is Los Angeles County’s only beach to make Heal the Bay’s list.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025

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“Parkway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parkway. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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