shunpike

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shunpike
Noun
  • Troopers later located the BMW on the side roads in Fairfield and were able to follow the vehicle from a distance.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The truck turned east off the highway onto a side road and was eventually pulled over by a deputy at the end of East Pine Street.
    Max Silverson, Idaho Statesman, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The side streets are packed with little cafés and buzzy restaurants — Sushi Noz, Heidi’s, Hutch & Waldo, Hoexters — and West Village hot spots Cafe Commerce and American Bar have both moved to Lexington.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The offices are a warren of small, cluttered rooms located on a side street downtown.
    David Segal, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Parker said most highways are in decent shape, and road crews will focus on frontage and secondary roads.
    Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Black ice is expected to form, especially on secondary roads and areas with runoff from melting snow.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Noun
  • 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
  • As a soft evening rain began to coat the cobblestone streets of Budapest’s Buda Castle District, my husband and I ducked excitedly into Korona Kávéház, a family-run confectionery and cafe, with dessert on the mind.
    Sable Massingill Martinez, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) first confirmed to PEOPLE that a Cessna 310 had crashed into a roadway on Friday, April 11, at around 10:20 a.m.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The males that lived near busy roadways behaved more aggressively than those living farther away by approaching the speaker closely and repeatedly swooping low over it, probably in search of the intruder.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Chubs had a long road to this seemingly happy ending.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Electric cars hit the roads and smart phones hit the stores.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Shunpike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shunpike. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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