cloverleaf

noun

Definition of cloverleafnext
as in interchange

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Recent Examples of cloverleaf Race around three barrels in a cloverleaf pattern as fast as possible. — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 4 Nov. 2025 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 The site sits just east of a clunky cloverleaf interchange that's an apt relic of mid-20th century sprawl. — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 12 Sep. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for cloverleaf
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloverleaf
  1. interchange
  2. overpass
  3. underpass
  4. intersection
Noun
  • Below is another interchange with Scott, away to Newcastle the following week, as well as a piece of inventive hold-up play to free Adrien Truffert down the wing at Manchester City last November.
    — Art de Roché, New York Times, 17 July 2026
  • The new interchange will be a diverging diamond, like those found at First Street in Ankeny or Grand Prairie Parkway in Waukee.
    — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 17 July 2026
Definition of interchange
Noun
  • The rail, which lined a four-lane road near an overpass, was an egregious assembly of one of Sicking’s older designs.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • The Kansas Department of Transportation is responsible for work on the overpass and the Kansas Turnpike Authority is responsible for the ramps, according to the government.
    — Sofi Zeman July 14, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
Definition of overpass
Noun
  • People should expect flooding of small creeks and streams, roads, underpasses, urban areas and other low-lying or poor-drainage locations.
    — Jen Guadarrama, IndyStar, 22 June 2026
  • Tran brake-checked the truck twice at the Story Road underpass, prosecutors said.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
Definition of underpass
Noun
  • Near a busy intersection in Shawnee, a red, white and blue sign juts out in front of a two-story home with a white picket fence.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
  • Bystander video filmed from a nearby car shows officers on the ground at an intersection, struggling with a man who is then pulled up to his feet.
    — Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
Definition of intersection

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