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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 problem started with the pandemic; although road traffic dried up, the death rate leapt by 20 percent.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
The Lakers are still heavy road underdogs with a +9.5 spread.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
The road is closed between I-70 East and East 18th Street in Kansas City.
—Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
Crews are working to fix the pipeline and reopen the road by Thursday, April 10, according to the news stations.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
The Lakers are still heavy road underdogs with a +9.5 spread.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
The road is closed between I-70 East and East 18th Street in Kansas City.
—Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
Crews are working to fix the pipeline and reopen the road by Thursday, April 10, according to the news stations.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for road
Noun
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
13 Apr. 2025
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Dire wolves did overlap with early humans at the end of the Ice Age, around 11,500 years ago, but humans had barely invented agriculture at that point, let alone begun building the cities and interstate highways that would encroach upon the natural world.—
Andrea Marks,
Rolling Stone,
12 Apr. 2025
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The city also plans to construct a bridge over the Union Pacific railroad track that bisects the parkway’s future path.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Mar. 2025
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Bokhari was also the lone vote on the City Council against a draft transit deal and purchasing railroad tracks for the Red Line train from uptown to the Lake Norman area.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Mar. 2025
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Safer streets, stronger neighborhoods, and city services that actually serve.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant serves terrific pizza and even better cheesesteaks that draw long lines running down the street or, some days, up the street the other way, just to keep life interesting.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
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These colourful and joyful spring flowers spanning multiple locations include streets, parks, malls, bridges, gardens, and railway stations.—
Miriam Porter,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Cars destined for export stand on railway cars at Bremerhaven Port before being loaded onto ships on February 27, 2025 in Bremerhaven, Germany.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2025
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The northernmost stretches of the road, and other thoroughfares stitching together Fort Worth’s northern outskirts, have had to cope with intense population booms in recent years.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
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The investigation has streets blocked around the intersection of two main thoroughfares, Northwest 183rd Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue.—
David J. Neal,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2025
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Late night and early morning commuters can expect detours along the freeways linking Fort Worth to Weatherford this weekend.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2025
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The slow-speed pursuit traveled on freeways in Oceanside, Carlsbad and then back toward Escondido.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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American military veteran hijacks plane in Belize, officials say The airplane, which had only 14 passengers on board, had been due to fly the short route from Corozal near the Mexican border to San Pedro, a popular tourist destination off the coast.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Amanda McPherson, 38, and Johnathon McPherson, 27, were caught when detectives discovered seemingly unrelated cases of fraud shared the same postal routes, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in an April 17 news release.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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Minutes before his disabled car was rear-ended in a hit-and-run crash that killed him, nightlife impresario Darryl Mathis Jr. was posting video to Instagram on the misfortune of being stranded on a Bronx expressway in the middle of the night.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
24 Mar. 2025
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Some Chicago expressways are already using ramp metering.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/road. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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