as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
one of the city's main thoroughfares
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Recent Examples of thoroughfare
Two more photos are selfies of the couple, who welcomed their first child, Jack Blue, in August 2024, looking happy in Mickey and Minnie ears, including one on what appears to be the park's main thoroughfare, Main Street, U.S.A.
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Moná Thomas, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Cottman Avenue in northern Philadelphia is a busy but slightly down-on-its-luck urban thoroughfare that has had a strange couple of years.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
The northernmost stretches of the road, and other thoroughfares stitching together Fort Worth’s northern outskirts, have had to cope with intense population booms in recent years.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Apr. 2025
The investigation has streets blocked around the intersection of two main thoroughfares, Northwest 183rd Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue.
—David J. Neal, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2025
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Moná Thomas, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Cottman Avenue in northern Philadelphia is a busy but slightly down-on-its-luck urban thoroughfare that has had a strange couple of years.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
The northernmost stretches of the road, and other thoroughfares stitching together Fort Worth’s northern outskirts, have had to cope with intense population booms in recent years.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Apr. 2025
The investigation has streets blocked around the intersection of two main thoroughfares, Northwest 183rd Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue.
—David J. Neal, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thoroughfare
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Israeli police said officers and emergency workers are still clearing the closed highway, with bulldozers brought in to remove debris.—
Dragana Jovanovic,
ABC News,
4 May 2025
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Trinity County authorities continued search and rescue operations Friday for the body of an infant who was swept away from his father’s arms after their four-door sedan veered off the highway and into the Trinity River.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2025
Noun
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There are at least some echoes of the ultra-hyper violent God of War, the famed video game series, and that is getting a live-action adaptation on Amazon Prime Video down the road.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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When the original owner of the bookstore needed to move locations down the road, the town residents showed up in droves, creating a human conveyor belt moving the books hand-to-hand down to the new location.—
American Booksellers Association,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Nixon reportedly stumbled out of the nightclub and collapsed on the street at the intersection Barnum Avenue and Bishop Avenue after he was shot in the torso during the early morning hours, Holtz said.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
2 May 2025
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The strict separations of the Jim Crow economy are illustrated in perhaps the most striking shot in the movie, when a young Chinese American woman, Lisa Chow, crosses the street to speak with her mother in their whites-only shop.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2025
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When overtaking a freight train of 2 or 3 Class 8 big rigs hauling loads of green tomatoes through our California Central Valley, or getting around a similar raft of gravel trucks on the 210 freeway in Los Angeles.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Investigators determined the driver of the 18-wheeler fell asleep behind the wheel and veered off the freeway.—
Amy McDaniel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Apr. 2025
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But sales of tickets for summer travel from the rest of the world are down only 2 percent compared with the same period last year, according to data on the 25 most popular routes from the Airlines Reporting Corporation, whose data covers about two-thirds of global airline ticket sales.—
Josh Holder,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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American Airlines did not address additional questions from The Observer about its capacity issues, as of Tuesday. ’Simply out of space’ American Airlines uses larger planes that are part of its main fleet with full-service operations for longer routes.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Apr. 2025
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This also follows Barcelona residents taking matters into their own hands in July 2024, when 3,000 residents protested against tourism by squirting visitors with water guns on Las Ramblas boulevard.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The former Probation Department lot offers a hideaway bounded by Crenshaw and Obama boulevards and the Expo Line and is sealed off from a row of apartment buildings to its west by a tall wall and shrubbery.—
Doug Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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,
28 Apr. 2025
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In a popular TikTok video posted April 21, Becky Levin Navarro is seen walking on a sidewalk near Austin’s MoPac expressway after a Waymo ride gone wrong.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The nearly 12-mile stretch of I-4 in Orange and Osceola counties between State Road 528 and State Road 429 jumped to first place among the most clogged roadways in the nation in 2023 after ranking tenth the previous year, according to INRIX.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2025
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The highway between the cities and parks is your average roadway, with gas stations, restaurants, and the like.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Thoroughfare.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thoroughfare. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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