Thesaurus results for AVENUE

avenue

noun

ˈa-və-ˌnü

Definition of avenue

as in street

a passage cleared for public vehicular travel a city famous for its broad, tree-lined avenues

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as in route

an established course for traveling from one place to another the two main avenues available to those joining in the California gold rush were the trail across the Southwest desert or the hazard-filled loop around Central and South America

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Recent Examples of avenue From there, a 10-minute walk along the area’s main avenue, Travessera Les Corts, brings you to a succession of bars sitting in the shadow of the stadium. — Pol Ballús, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 But the roughly 18-month initiative has yielded new avenues of progress. — Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Tuesday, Igoe said deputies had pulled over a vehicle along the eastbound lanes of Highway 50 between Howe and Watt avenues. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2026 That avenue was ideal for states that couldn’t buy execution drugs from more scrutinized pharmaceutical companies. — Max Blau, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for avenue

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Noun

Hundreds of people were getting killed every year at street-level crossings, and to quell the public outcry, the railroads scrambled to elevate freight tracks citywide at their own expense.

— John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Before the terrible day was over firehouses, street corners and parks became mourning places.

— Robert W. Snyder, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of street

Noun

Dependency has overtaken intrusion as the most common route to an outage.

— Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
The situation can be extra frustrating in 2026, as most carriers have significantly raised the cost of checking luggage on domestic and short-haul international routes to an average of $45 for the first bag.

— Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of route

Noun

Two years later, Wong became one of the key leaders of the city’s Umbrella Movement protests that rallied thousands of predominantly young people to the streets to call for greater democracy by blocking major thoroughfares for 79 straight days.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
At Aizomê, a stylish Japanese restaurant shrouded by a thick wall of trees just off São Paulo’s main thoroughfare, Avenida Paulista, the food is both recognizable to devotees of Japanese cuisine and distinctly Brazilian.

— Tomé Morrissy-Swan, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of thoroughfare

Noun

Much of the league’s hopes for the future rest on the development of young talents like McKibbin, Josele Ballester, Caleb Surratt and Michael La Sasso, but who knows if those players want to commit to an unstable path.

— Brody Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Adan Figueroa, a high school counselor at Prosser Career Academy, has spent much of his career helping undocumented and immigrant students navigate the path to college.

— Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of path

Noun

Tariffs on cement, road salt and hospital pads were removed and replaced with duties on all-terrain vehicles, some cheeses and motorboats.

— Steve Kopack, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
Some might be taken on the road and featured in live appearances, or at least have their stories recorded and included in campaign ads.

— Cal Thomas, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of road

Noun

Some of that was due to the injuries on the offensive line, but some of it could be attributable to O’Connell’s approach as a play caller as well.

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Rocket Lab used a different approach to diversify after achieving success with its small Electron launch vehicle.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of approach

Noun

And as to the top-down driving experience, the S/C is quite pleasant even at highway speeds.

— Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 14 Sep. 2026
Matthew Denton, a sheriff's deputy in Ohio's Medina County, has a new dog with a new name, Trooper, in a nod to highway patrol officer John Kronander who found the gray and white puppy abandoned in a crate without food or water at a rest area.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of highway

Noun

Broadcom paid its former landlord, PRP Real Assets, $325 million for the 660,000-square-foot research campus near the junction of the 5 and 405 freeways in one of the largest office sales in Southern California in recent years.

— Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
In July, some 300 drones rose beside the 101 freeway and hovered for 15 minutes, forming Angelyne’s face and a telephone number in the night sky.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

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