beltway

noun

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as in parkway

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Recent Examples of beltway Members of Congress exist in the cosseted Beltway bubble, enjoying special treatment and services their constituents do not. — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 Mar. 2026 An extension of Paris’ tramlines — which shadow the beltway from the inside and now form an almost-complete ring around the city — has also given people who live in Paris’ outer boroughs their own alternative. — Marie Patino, Bloomberg, 20 Mar. 2026 When Mayor Jerry moves forward with the construction of a beltway that will destroy the glade where Mabel learned to calm her nervous system and love nature with her wise grandmother (Karen Huie), this riot grrl skates into action. — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2026 In recent days, as Netflix became an increasingly serious contender to take over the storied, century-old studio home to the The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, and The Lord of the Rings, the service faced pushback both within Hollywood’s 30-mile zone and inside the Washington beltway. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for beltway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beltway
  1. parkway
  2. interstate
  3. bypass
  4. superhighway
  5. autobahn
  6. motorway
  7. highway
  8. freeway
Noun
  • The parkway passes through Alleghany County near the Virginia state line.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Crews will return to Lisle in the spring and fall to determine which parkway trees need to be replaced, and will do so for residents who lost trees in the storms, Elias said.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of parkway
Noun
  • Little Rock police spokesman Mark Edwards said the officer who was chasing Shelton did not follow him south in the northbound lanes, instead getting back on the interstate heading south in the southbound lanes.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The offerings of any decent oyster shucker will change according to the seasons and the tides and the shoals and the shipping lines and the harbor freight and the rush-hour traffic on the interstate.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of interstate
Noun
  • Mamdani’s alternative would revisit the 2006 strategy by threading an elevated bypass into the narrow slot between the BQE and Brooklyn Bridge Park.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Aug. 2026
  • An additional bypass lane will run from Columbia Heights, over the Brooklyn Bridge approach, to the Manhattan Bridge.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of bypass
Noun
  • Our strategic position between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi watershed set our course as a commerce superhighway, with the Chicago Portage connecting two vast trading routes between the Atlantic and the Gulf.
    — Alaina Harkness, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
  • Mycorrhizal fungi direct traffic through nutrient superhighways and restructure the soil to support life across entire ecosystems.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
Definition of superhighway
Noun
  • The new Stars arena will be located off the Dallas autobahn, more commonly called the Dallas North Tollway, which over the last decade has become one of the busiest main roads in DFW.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2026
  • Southbound on the autobahn, just shy of the halfway point to Munich, a 45‑minute detour east leads to Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei, brewing since 1050.
    — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
Definition of autobahn
Noun
  • Earlier in August, five teenagers were killed in a two-vehicle collision in Ireland after driving a car the wrong way down a motorway.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
  • At the periphery, the big cities with their golden nightlights bound together by long threads of motorway.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of motorway
Noun
  • While crews were at the scene, a separate crash occurred on the eastbound side of the highway when a driver slowed down to look at the wreck, according to Peck.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Minneapolis has long been a civic-minded metropolis, where even the choice of vegetation on highway medians can become the subject of extended public debate, in a state with a history of protest going back to the nineteenth century.
    — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of highway
Noun
  • Bikes are not allowed to on freeways or expressways, and cyclists cannot pass through tolls unless the signs nearby dictate otherwise.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • In the city today, the Salt River is mostly reduced to a wide, dusty trough that passes unceremoniously under freeway bridges.
    — Alex Hager, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of freeway

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“Beltway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beltway. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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