as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
the four-lane highway narrows to two lanes once you leave the city
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Recent Examples of highway
The two latest examples of that despoliation are the Regina Bypass, an expensive highway completed in 2019, and the Global Transportation Hub, an expensive logistics center (canada’s premier inland port) built in 2009.
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Life-threatening flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
—Staff Reports, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Snelling Avenue is a state highway that draws high traffic counts.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
Halloween Driving School — Drive along a haunted highway on the Driving School ride.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Life-threatening flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
—Staff Reports, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Snelling Avenue is a state highway that draws high traffic counts.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
Halloween Driving School — Drive along a haunted highway on the Driving School ride.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for highway
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The project aims to remove more than 1 million heavy goods vehicles from roads in the western Alps between France and Italy.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Most of them are going to come down to track position, pit strategy, executing on pit road.—
Lydia Mee,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Gà Thượng Hải Between a tangle of freeway overpasses, next to a gas station, is one of the few Vietnamese restaurants in Houston specializing in poultry.—
Bao Ong,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
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Across the freeway at McClain’s Longhorn RV in the Sanger/Denton North KOA campground, several RVs overturned and one person was sent to Denton Presbyterian Hospital with critical injuries, Taylor said.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Sep. 2025
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Mounted officers and sniffer dogs patrolled the streets near Windsor and Eton Central railway station, monitoring arrivals and maintaining security around the historic town.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Shane Croucher
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Footage of the protests showed Ecuadorians clashing with police forces in the capital city of Quito on Tuesday as protesters dismantled fences and barriers while police fired tear gas in the streets.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Intelligent highway, city, and parking capabilities At the core of this technology is High-speed Navigation Cruise Assist, which allows the SUV to easily handle national highways, urban expressways, and ring roads.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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Drivers should expect to see alternating lane closures every night for the next couple months as crews complete a paving project on one of Nashville's busiest thoroughfares.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
19 Sep. 2025
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The thoroughfare is also home to Central City Plaza.—
La Risa R. Lynch,
jsonline.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Cocaine production in Colombia has soared as the government takes a hands-off approach to coca cultivation, fueling a wave of violence across Latin America as cartels vie for control of trafficking routes.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The easy route takes visitors along a disused rail line for a gentle jaunt in one of the Pacific Northwest's loveliest regions.—
Stacey Lastoe,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Sep. 2025
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The plan for the roadway that stretches across the Hagginwood and Del Paso Heights neighborhoods of North Sacramento will later go before the City Council for approval.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
17 Sep. 2025
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On a spring day in 1869, at a salon on one of Paris’s bustling boulevards, a group of prominent thinkers — including some of Pasteur’s close colleagues — discussed science’s future.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
15 Sep. 2025
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And there’s nothing tomblike about the constant rumble of traffic from the boulevard outside.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Highway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highway. Accessed 24 Sep. 2025.
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