Definition of superhighway
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:a multilane highway (such as an expressway or turnpike) designed for high-speed traffic
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These roads were conceived as part of a national superhighway of Confederate memory in the 1910s, amid a wider push in the South for Confederate monuments.
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Just north of the city’s bustling downtown, the neighborhood was disrupted decades ago by the construction of two intersecting, elevated superhighways that isolated the community and contributed to an economic decline.
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Soon, a string of demanding, more prominent projects followed: a stretch of superhighway ringing Moscow; two troubled stadiums for the 2018 World Cup, including one in a Baltic swamp.
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The first was President Dwight Eisenhower, who championed the notion of continental superhighways before signing, in 1956, the law that authorized the Interstate Highway System.
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The interconnect is like a data superhighway on which multiple co-processors can be plugged in.
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This digital superhighway runs through beautiful Burlington, a small city sandwiched between the distant Green Mountains and the 125-mile-long Lake Champlain.
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The obvious answer, then, is to make the road network as efficient as the information superhighway.
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First Known Use of superhighway
1924
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