traffic circle

noun

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Eno’s work led to the first traffic circles, one-way streets, traffic lights, medians for pedestrian safety, the hard angle for left turns and the norm of passing on the right. Katy Knight, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025 The helicopter made a dusty landing about 40 miles from downtown Dallas, in an area where builders were laying down new traffic circles next to pastures grazed by herds of longhorn cattle. Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025 After navigating through a traffic circle, a road on the right leads to the parking booths and the lot. Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 May 2025 These and other devastating accidents speak to the critical and urgent improvements needed at that traffic circle, as well as but not limited to the intersection of Summer Creek Dr. and Risinger Rd., or ensuring improved road maintenance in Como. Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for traffic circle

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First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of traffic circle was in 1914

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“Traffic circle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traffic%20circle. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.

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