arterial

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Recent Examples of arterial Original concepts showed the construction of a dedicated bike lane and sidewalk on each side of an arterial, and behind both curbs with a grass buffer. Mason Rouser, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 For example, Camp Pendleton is close to the ocean, surrounded by many local communities with large populations, and has major arterials surrounding it. Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 21 May 2025 In San Antonio, for instance, the city negotiated for years with the Texas DOT to add sidewalks and bike lanes to Broadway, a state arterial with seven lanes. David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024 The second- and third-most impactful factors were wolf predation and parasitism by carotid arterial worms (E. schneideri). Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for arterial
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Noun
  • 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
  • According to the Dallas Morning News, Rice lost control while racing on a Dallas highway, causing a multi-vehicle hit-and-run.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Pledges to give it all away A good friend of philanthropist Michael Milken who has raised billions of dollars for cancer research, Ellison believes the road to bliss is altruistic giving.
    Martine Paris, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Studies have also shown that the extra hour of daylight has resulted in safer roads, lower crime rates and economic benefits.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Residents have told the Riverworks Development Corporation that many trucks use neighborhood roads instead of sticking to West Vienna Avenue and North Third Street, which are the two thoroughfares bordering the warehouse.
    Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Since its opening in mid-June, the experimental project has driven a 25 percent increase in total sales across the West Nanjing Road thoroughfare.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Tesla had been at the impound lot for two days after being found abandoned on a Hollywood street, investigators said.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Fairgoers can take advantage of Valley Regional Transit, which will shuttle people from any VRT stop to 13th and Ridenbaugh streets (about two blocks from the fair) — and back afterward.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For some patients, other tools—like a coronary calcium scan, which can directly show whether there’s silent plaque in the arteries—may be more useful.
    Sarah Garone, Health, 9 Sep. 2025
  • And if all the organic tofu suddenly triggers an irresistible urge to clog your arteries?
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The latter riffs mythopoetically on the region’s aerospace industry, and the former features an anthropology of our freeways any native Angeleno could get behind.
    John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • After earning her Commercial Driver's License (CDL), Ezrre was given her route, which was 45 minutes from her bus barn and required her to drive on the freeway.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to optimizing queries, Espresso routes queries between different compute clusters to maximize efficiency.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The location of the firearm appears to match the suspect's route of travel, the sources said.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Aerial view of Seoul downtown city skyline with vehicle on expressway and bridge cross over Han river in Seoul city, South Korea.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025

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“Arterial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arterial. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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