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a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
a cow wandered into the roadway
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Recent Examples of roadway
Officers located the bicyclist, who was unresponsive in the roadway, and began performing life-saving measures until the EMS arrived at the scene, Boisvert said.
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2025
On 143rd Street, just east of Ridgeland Avenue, the bridge replacement will be done in three stages, including replacing the superstructure, roadway and landscaping.
—Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
According to state emergency management officials, preliminary damage reports in Arkansas include flooding on roadways, downed trees and power lines, water rescues and damage from a possible tornado near the city of Wynne.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2025
The strong currents from flash floods can pull drivers off roadways.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 4 Apr. 2025
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2025
On 143rd Street, just east of Ridgeland Avenue, the bridge replacement will be done in three stages, including replacing the superstructure, roadway and landscaping.
—Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
According to state emergency management officials, preliminary damage reports in Arkansas include flooding on roadways, downed trees and power lines, water rescues and damage from a possible tornado near the city of Wynne.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2025
The strong currents from flash floods can pull drivers off roadways.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roadway
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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The suite also enables features like partial highway self-driving, automatic lane changes, on-ramp and exit navigation, and high-speed emergency collision avoidance, similar to the E8 system.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Apr. 2025
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The Chubs had a long road to this seemingly happy ending.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Electric cars hit the roads and smart phones hit the stores.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
10 Apr. 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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This is not the homeless problem that New Yorkers are most familiar with: people sleeping on subway cars or begging for change on street corners, often struggling with mental illness or addiction.—
Jonah Markowitz,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Truck Driver Swallowed by Giant Sinkhole in Japan as Rescuers Work to Retrieve Vehicle Resident Terrance Perkins told WFAA that during heavy rain, streets in the area bear the brunt of the overflow of water from the White Rock Lake and Prairie Creek dams.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
People.com,
8 Apr. 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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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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Two Turkey fans stood in the middle of a three-lane carriageway.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
6 July 2024
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The project, first launched in 2019, broke ground in February 2023 to connect the A417 highway bypass to the Cowley roundabout, a section of road that is currently a single-lane carriageway that slows traffic, transportation officials said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
10 May 2024
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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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“Roadway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roadway. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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