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cloverleaf

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Definition of cloverleaf

as in interchange

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Recent Examples of cloverleaf The developers released architectural plans of a cloverleaf-style complex with three towers, a plaza and gardens on the roof. — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2016 To avoid traffic jams, the avenues that connect each sector of the city were designed without intersections; instead, the intersections have cloverleaf interchanges. — Sophia La Banca, JSTOR Daily, 11 Mar. 2026 The interchange — with on and off ramps and a bridge over the highway — will be located a mile west of the interchange at Woodland Road and a mile east of the cloverleaf at K-7. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025 But residents of the surrounding area have complained for years that the nearby cloverleaf interchange for Colfax Avenue and Federal Boulevard divides the community and creates unsafe conditions for pedestrians and drivers. — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for cloverleaf

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The Tollway plans to build a full interchange at a cost of $132 million.

— Marni Pike, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Merchants pay interchange on card payments and hold working balances that earn them nothing, and a coin that settles instantly, costs less to accept and, under Open USD’s model, pays them the yield on their balances answers both at once.

— Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of interchange

Noun

Police set up crime scene tape along an overpass on State Street, right where the Dan Ryan Expressway forks into the Bishop Ford Freeway to the south suburbs.

— Darius Johnson, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Paying for the overpass now means having more immediate access to the infrastructure and helps residents and construction crews access the subdivision, Jill Youmans, a communications manager for the Idaho Transportation Department told the Idaho Statesman.

— Noah Daly, Idaho Statesman, 28 June 2026

Definition of overpass

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The buildings are located at the intersection of North Lawn and Scarritt avenues.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
Michelle O'Connor is Founder of The Digital Future, Co-Founder of Converge Labs, and a builder at the intersection of Crypto, AI, Bio.

— Michelle O'Connor, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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