Thesaurus results for AVENUES

avenues

noun

plural of avenue

as in streets

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

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as in paths

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 avenues That includes in the Senate, legislative mechanisms, introducing amendments having to do with the fund, doing other things to force Republicans to the floor, addressing this issue, and then potential legal avenues to also stop the fund from going forward. —

Dana Taylor, USA Today, 2 June 2026 One of those avenues is through storytelling because that has never been a strong suit of the series. —

Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 2 June 2026 All of them appear to be wearing coveralls or protective clothing before quickly changing into different clothes near McDonald and Bedford avenues. —

Tom Winter, NBC news, 1 June 2026 With some of their members likely to join Democrats in opposing the program, Senate Republicans had considered putting guardrails on the fund into the DHS bill itself, or otherwise finding avenues to dictate how the fund would operate and who might receive payments from it. —

Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 1 June 2026 Lakhani Hospitality is building a five-story, 152-room Residence Inn by Marriott and SpringHill Suites by Marriott on 1 ¼ acres at the corner of Lincoln and Touhy avenues in Lincolnwood at the popular District 1860. —

Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026 Fans marched along the avenues near Paris’ Arc de Triomphe monument, with some setting off flares and blaring car horns. —

ABC News, 31 May 2026 The fires blazed near Interstate 84 between mileposts 13 and 17 and between Southeast 8th and 9th avenues off of Sand Hollow Road, according to a news release, after a powerful storm system with high, damaging winds blew through the Treasure Valley. —

Idaho Statesman, 29 May 2026 Few other avenues provide the necessary jolt to make up the miles-wide gap between Minnesota and the Thunder and Spurs. —

Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 26 May 2026

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While these instruments might be heard loudly on the streets, they have been banned at the World Cup this year in Mexico to prevent excessive noise.

— Michael Rios, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
In fact, this section of the trail is the perfect place to throw away the map (or turn off the Google Maps) and simply wander the cobblestone streets.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026