traffic circle

noun

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Also, any changes to the traffic circles would require a redesign that would push the project past the deadline. Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2025 Horizontal measures These include traffic circles, like the ones recently installed along 12th Avenue South, which slow traffic significantly without any bumps in the road itself. Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 The plan also calls for park-like traffic circles at ground level at MAST and at the Marine Stadium entrance -- which now has no crosswalk and no signal -- and improvements at the two other intersections on the causeway road two on Virginia Key. Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 23 May 2025 Homeowners near the traffic circles at two intersections on Kelly Drive said the traffic circles encourage speeding and create a safety hazard for children walking to the nearby Kelly Elementary School. Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 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 15 Jul. 2025.

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