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Recent Examples of autoroute
Worthington spent his first years in France on a meagre wage, grateful that the club paid his expenses for trundling up and down the autoroute in his Fiat Punto: a 14-hour round trip to Lyon, a 16-hour there and back to Marseille.
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Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
The bridge carries the A75 autoroute across the Tarn valley, stretching 2,460 meters.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
The result has been massive, heavy and hugely expensive vehicles which need ever bigger batteries, taxpayer incentives, and can’t handle long-range, high-speed autoroute cruising.
—Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
The bridge carries the A75 autoroute across the Tarn valley, stretching 2,460 meters.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
The result has been massive, heavy and hugely expensive vehicles which need ever bigger batteries, taxpayer incentives, and can’t handle long-range, high-speed autoroute cruising.
—Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for autoroute
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The transport links should be a strength given Villa Park’s central location in the middle of England by the busiest motorway intersection in the country — Spaghetti Junction.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The explosion Saturday killed at least 15 women on the busy motorway, according to the governor of Cauca, Octavio Guzmán, leaving behind the twisted metal debris of multiple vehicles by a 650-foot crater in the road.—
Frank Andrews,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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At about 90 mph on an unlimited German autobahn the range will be cut by about 44% to around 185 miles, according to ChatGPT.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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For Hitler, the autobahn was a concrete expression of German efficiency and nationalism.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
1 May 2026
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Lopez and Gonzalez, prosecutors said, would follow the victims and ambush them on the highway.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2026
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The same company that helped build highways and cities for a century is now helping build the backbone of the next industrial boom.—
Jay Woods,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
Noun
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The Idaho Transportation Department announced Friday that crews will begin milling and paving the interstate between the Garrity Boulevard (Nampa) and Ten Mile Road (Meridian) interchanges Tuesday night, and I-84 lane closures are set to begin Monday.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
6 June 2026
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The closure impacts the same stretch of interstate that was shut down earlier this month and is part of the ongoing I-285 Westside reconstruction project, which spans 10 miles from South Fulton Parkway in College Park to Collier Road.—
Daniel Wilkerson,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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It was named Lucca incidentally because Auto Union star driver Hans Stuck set its record-breaking speed on a stretch of straight autostrada near the Italian town in 1935.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 May 2026
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There’s also a Huracán Polizia version The Italian Highway Patrol uses a Huracán with police badging and a lightbar on the autostradas in and around Bologna.—
Sean Evans,
Robb Report,
2 Apr. 2024
Noun
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Our strategic position between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi watershed set our course as a commerce superhighway, with the Chicago Portage connecting two vast trading routes between the Atlantic and the Gulf.—
Alaina Harkness,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2026
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In many ways, the Internet is the greatest disseminator of misinformation ever invented, crossed with a superhighway of shopping.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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Just off a freeway in California’s Inland Empire — 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles — the brick exterior is a mind-numbing shade of beige.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
1 June 2026
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Multiple deadly crashes early Sunday This was one of three deadly crashes on the Tarrant County freeway early Sunday.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 May 2026
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Both were able to spot tracks, on dusty roads, and follow the tracks to successfully find wildlife.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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Nine crucial years of expansion and solidification of the pernicious institution went by, speeding the nation’s road toward a grinding war.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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“Autoroute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autoroute. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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