beltway

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Recent Examples of beltway 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 On the other hand, most policymakers inside the beltway view this regulatory framework as sacred. Norbert Michel, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for beltway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beltway
Noun
  • The parkway is a two-lane winding road that covers 469 miles through the Appalachian Highlands of Virginia and North Carolina.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2025
  • The parkway about 35 miles south of downtown Nashville in the city of Murfreesboro, a booming town home to Middle Tennessee State University, the largest undergraduate university in The Volunteer State.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • And in 1956 the Federal-Aid Highway Act funded 41,000 miles of interstate—an asphalt backbone justified as civil defense infrastructure but experienced as a coast-to-coast permission slip for self-reinvention.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
  • The witnesses described seeing the suspect and victim's vehicles come to a stop in front of them, forcing them to stop on the interstate, as well, the probable cause statement says.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • All the recent headline Gmail attacks abuse Google’s legitimate infrastructure to either bypass password and two-factor authentication (2fA) security or mimic Google’s own employees to trick users into opening up their own accounts to attackers.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • The researchers also touted several other medical advancements, including coronary artery bypass grafting, cardiac imaging and many new heart disease medications.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • In the Plowshare film, a crude animation illustrates a zipper of nuclear blasts from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to excavate a sea-level channel up to two hundred feet wide and one thousand feet deep, an oceanic superhighway across Costa Rica or Nicaragua.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • The superhighway would move large quantities of electricity from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar in remote locations, to urban and industrial centers with high energy demand.
    Deborah Wince-Smith, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • During my test driving, which comprised about 45 miles, in a variety of modes and at a variety of speeds including close to 100mph on a German autobahn, the car achieved close to 3 miles per kWh.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Officials from the Canton of Solothurn said the walker noticed the brick fragments and stones near the motorway bridge along the A1 motorway in Luterbach, according to a May 20 Facebook post.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • My week consists of going to and from dog parks via motorways and B-roads after working hours.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2025
  • The Waymo robotaxis available through the Uber app will cover approximately 65 square miles around Atlanta, but will not yet travel on highways or to the airport.
    Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Here is how the Nationals (33-46) will line up for Game 2: Yu Darvish will travel up the 15 freeway to throw a sim game at low Single-A Lake Elsinore on Wednesday.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • The practice boosts productivity, reduces freeway congestion, lowers office costs, reduces air pollution, and enhances employee morale.
    Erik Skindrud, Mercury News, 19 June 2025

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“Beltway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beltway. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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