beltway

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Recent Examples of beltway This could be a political master stroke: a chance to appear like a savvy dealmaker above the swampy beltway fray, while keeping the back pocket option to withhold or rescind agreed-to funding later. Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025 Growth brings beltway conversation to the table — again Bauges noted that for his entire career with ITD, nearing 30 years, the Kuna-Mora route has been a topic of conversation. Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 3 Oct. 2025 Over time, her responsibilities grew: in 2001, she was asked to oversee AMLO’s marquee project, a four-hundred-million-dollar renovation of Mexico City’s beltway. Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025 Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement. Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for beltway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beltway
Noun
  • The Elantra went on to hit three parked cars, while the squad car was pushed onto the parkway and sidewalk and hit a tree, police said.
    Kris Habermehl, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • On the day before Thanksgiving at Milwaukee’s Congress School off the Lincoln Creek parkway on the city's west side, students were out for fall break but the school was abuzz.
    Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The agents eventually drove onto the interstate without detaining the driver.
    Rebecca Santana, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Wenzel, who was traveling west, came to a stop on the northbound side of the interstate, when two cars were unable to avoid him and crashed into his car.
    Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • On Wednesday, Folsom spokesperson Christine Brainerd said the city believes the settlement was the most responsible way to bring the lawsuit to an end, avoid further expenses and bypass uncertainty brought by further litigation.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Work continued Friday on a water main break that forced the closure of lanes in both directions of a busy commute bypass road Thursday, authorities said.
    Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The motorway was originally built by Southern California Edison to install electrical towers, Green said.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Squeezed by environmental regulations and fearing a flood of cheap food products from across the Atlantic, farmers have blocked highways and descended on the streets of European capitals in an explosion of outrage against the agreement.
    Isabel Debre, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Most of the construction happening right now is occurring on the highways, turnpikes, and interstates that get most residents through their daily commute.
    Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 15 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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

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“Beltway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beltway. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.

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