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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
Fast but legal cruising down the autoroute was also unimpressive, slashing range by over 60%.
—Neil Winton, Forbes, 27 Feb. 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
Fast but legal cruising down the autoroute was also unimpressive, slashing range by over 60%.
—Neil Winton, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for autoroute
Noun
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Leeds United’s home, nestled by the side of the M621 motorway around the edges of the city, looks tired in places.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
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The motorway was originally built by Southern California Edison to install electrical towers, Green said.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The state could build a high-speed autobahn for a fraction of the cost to move residents from the southern half of the state to the northern half and vice versa.—
John Moorlach,
Oc Register,
14 Dec. 2025
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The final drive day sees guests back on the autobahn and up into the incredible views afforded along German Alpine Road.—
Duncan Madden,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The legislation would modify federal highway and freight safety programs to allow grant recipients, such as state departments of transportation, to use vehicle telematics and predictive analytics to identify infrastructure concerns.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Jan. 2026
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Marketing legal services through 1-800 numbers in late-night TV commercials or on highway billboards is old and pricey but effective.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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That’s one of the busiest stretches of interstate in the region.—
Mark Price
January 6,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Jan. 2026
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Authorities shut down both directions of the interstate for almost two hours while crews worked the scene.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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Barreling down the autostrada, idling in front of our hotel, or stopping for gas, coffee, or red lights, the wagon drew constant admiration and approval.—
Tony Quiroga,
Car and Driver,
12 Aug. 2023
Noun
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But it was actually set in motion a year ago, when the Midcontinent Independent System Operator – the power grid operator for the central United States – approved a suite of projects to build a transmission superhighway across the upper Midwest.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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The team said the quantity and pattern of tracks - and the fact they were all found in the same sediment layer - suggest that dinosaurs didn't settle in what is now Bolivia as much as trudge along an ancient coastal superhighway stretching from southern Peru into northwest Argentina.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Dec. 2025
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Officers issued a SigAlert for all eastbound lanes of the freeway between Crenshaw Boulevard and Arlington Avenue as their investigation continued.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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In Arizona, our driving laws are influenced by factors like busy freeways in metro Phoenix, monsoon season flooding, outdated transportation modes and distracted driving laws.—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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If no shelter is available avoid trees, power lines, and the side of the road.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Autoroute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autoroute. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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