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Recent Examples of beltway
Outside the beltway, the biggest states have the heftiest number of federal workers: California (147,500 workers) and Texas (130,000 workers), according to Pew data.
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Nerdwallet, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025
Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Lawmakers from outside the beltway have lobbied for more flights to different parts of the country due to the airport’s convenience over the other two airports.
—Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Jan. 2025
Trucks carrying hazardous materials that used the bridge to cross the harbor are now forced to go around the beltway in the opposite direction (a 35-mile detour) due to cargo restrictions through Baltimore City traffic tunnels.
—April Quevedo, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
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Nerdwallet, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025
Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Lawmakers from outside the beltway have lobbied for more flights to different parts of the country due to the airport’s convenience over the other two airports.
—Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Jan. 2025
Trucks carrying hazardous materials that used the bridge to cross the harbor are now forced to go around the beltway in the opposite direction (a 35-mile detour) due to cargo restrictions through Baltimore City traffic tunnels.
—April Quevedo, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beltway
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Downtown Denver rises above Speer Boulevard, a historic parkway in the city.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Blue Ridge Mountains are one of the country’s most recognizable natural features, and the 469-mile parkway that run along their length, from Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Shenandoah National Park, is a Southern icon.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
13 Aug. 2025
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Routh allegedly fled after the agent fired at him, and was later arrested after being stopped on a nearby interstate.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
8 Sep. 2025
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Originally built in 1959, the bridge connects Gardner over I-35 and it’s used as the city’s southern access point to the interstate, Edgerton and nearby warehouses, according to Johnson County Post Reporting.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
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Her 48-year-old father, Zach Barton, stayed in the hospital for 11 days and underwent triple bypass surgery.—
Talia McWright,
Twin Cities,
29 Aug. 2025
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The authentication bypass allows hackers to create a URL that accesses an emergency access page for Passwordstate.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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Don't let your investment in a state-of-the-art superhighway be compromised by an inability to see the traffic.—
Serge Lucio,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The documentary, executive produced by Susan Chun, gives a rare look at how Ecuador became a narco superhighway.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
10 Aug. 2025
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On the autobahn, Sport+ lowers the ride height and takes some camber off the wheels for better straight-line performance.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
7 Aug. 2025
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Beer plays Laura, a piano student at a music academy in Berlin, first seen in the opening shots on an autobahn overpass looking down at a river.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
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The northern part of the island was at a standstill, schools closed, traffic snailing down the motorway.—
Ariel Saramandi,
The Dial,
29 July 2025
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Police found Alia's head and the axe in a bag in her car, which Jesse R. was driving when arrested on the A4 motorway, according to the NL Times news site.—
Jason Lemon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 July 2025
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
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The two head down the highway, sitting side-by-side in Muñeco’s massive 18-wheeler.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
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The latter riffs mythopoetically on the region’s aerospace industry, and the former features an anthropology of our freeways any native Angeleno could get behind.—
John Lopez,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
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After earning her Commercial Driver's License (CDL), Ezrre was given her route, which was 45 minutes from her bus barn and required her to drive on the freeway.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Beltway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beltway. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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