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Recent Examples of artery Coiling is a procedure used to block blood flow to the aneurysm, which is a weakened or bulging artery wall, John Hopkins Medicine explains. Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025 Pecans are an undeniably vital artery of the town’s culture. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025 But behind the buzzwords are ingredients that fuel inflammation, spike blood sugar, and quietly damage your arteries over time. Dr. Sanjay Bhojraj, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025 With the Israeli government signing off on the first phase of a plan that would end a two-year war in Gaza, the Suez Canal Authority is calling on the container shipping industry to return to the trade artery. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for artery
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Noun
  • Future of eVTOLs In the longer term, Goldstein sees a future where eVTOLs are ubiquitous in the skies above American cities, flying in designated, but invisible, sky highways to ensure safety.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Traffic immediately backed up after the closure as motorists lost the main thoroughfare connecting south Orange County to San Diego County, and Caltrans later opened the freeway in the early afternoon, but with traffic breaks.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The busy freeway travels directly through the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base for nearly 20 miles, with no other major thoroughfares in the region.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For the filmmakers working in the region over the past two years, it’s been a long, arduous road to reach audiences, as the war impacted their physical productions and made potential distributors wary of facing political backlash for releasing their films.
    Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Gripen fighters have the reputation of being relatively cheap and easy to maintain and arm, and able to operate in austere conditions – using roads or even dirt roads for runways.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Marines were firing artillery from the coast to inland impact zones on the other side of the freeway.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The freeway was previously closed for the investigation, MSP said in the post.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Johnson led officers on a chase through city streets before crashing at Seventh and Barton streets, the release says.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This is the fifth year of the campaign effort to petition Detroit’s city council to honor Mudge by naming a street after him.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Reading a separate memo from Barbabella, Leavitt said Trump had no symptoms of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease.
    Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, the fee is supposed to go towards such things as helping build a new interchange on Highway 50, a major arterial four miles away by the nearest road.
    James Burling, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Diagonal passes to onrushing full-backs has proven to be another effective route around the high defensive line, as Inter targeted Denzel Dumfries with 14 long balls out to his flank across the two-legged Champions League semi-final tie with Barcelona last season.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The patient who was being taken to the hospital was placed in another rescue vehicle, which continued the route.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On Saturday night over a week ago, a group of protesters blocked a nearby expressway.
    Natasha Korecki, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2025
  • On the morning of Islam’s funeral, the streets of Parkchester, a neighborhood of brick row houses and big-box stores, were blocked off on both sides of the expressway.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Artery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artery. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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