Thesaurus results for CORNICHE

corniche

noun

Definition of corniche

as in street

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Recent Examples of corniche This street is very busy because of the university and people trying to escape traffic on the corniche road. — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026 Shelters were so over-crowded some families resorted to laying out blankets on sidewalks of the corniche, Beirut's sea-side. — Npr Staff, NPR, 3 Mar. 2026 On Beirut’s seaside corniche, Mohammad Mohammad from the village of Marwahin in southern Lebanon was strolling with his three children. — Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 That’s when Etihad Airways will link Atlanta to Abu Dhabi with its dazzling corniche, outpost of the famed Louvre museum and, soon, the capital of the United Arab Emirates’ own Sphere. — Edward Russell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024 There are plenty of people walking and cycling along the corniche in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood, and several sailboats and paddle boarders are out in the ocean. — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024

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Noun

An Arkansas State Police trooper was captured on dashcam footage yanking the passenger of a vehicle by his hair and punching him in the face after a high-speed chase that ended in the streets of Blytheville.

— Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2026
There’s no denying that the fall 2026 runways made a strong case for color; even the street style scene is on board, slipping into colorful shoes and sporting handbags in a variety of vibrant shades—baby pink, chartreuse, and cobalt.

— Laura Jackson, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of street

Noun

Getting the new library open isn’t as simple, though, as simply trucking boxes of books down the boulevard.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Then the musical group collated the various streets, roads, places, drives, boulevards and cardinal directions into 53 seconds of gold.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of boulevard

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

AVs can cause safety issues, especially during inclement weather, blackouts and on roads where there's construction or unusual traffic.

— Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
Thus the oceanic feeling might be the royal road to establishing a museum of affiliations, rather than the old colonialist museum of conquests.

— George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of road

Noun

The partnership between two outsiders clawing their way in, joined by an equally canny journalist played by Claire Foy, comes to shape Fleet Street, the London thoroughfare where scribblers plied their trade, in Lamb’s and Murdoch’s images.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
Kitchens were structured for high throughput and delivery vehicles lined up on the other side of the building to take finished meals and speed them along critical thoroughfares for timely and low-cost delivery.

— George C. Lee II, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of thoroughfare

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

Noun

Chief among them is the war in Iran, which analysts view as a stalemate that has choked major maritime arteries for oil and gas.

— Steve Kopack, NBC news, 3 Sep. 2026
In these clips, Shakur celebrates in the backstage arteries of the MGM’s Grand Garden arena directly after Tyson’s victory over Bruce Seldon.

— Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of artery

Noun

The driver is also alleged to have made a U-turn from a through lane after exiting the expressway, according to the affidavit.

— Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
Directed by Takahiro Hasui, the latest installment in the franchise tracks Conan Edogawa investigating high-speed vehicular sabotage on an expressway network.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of expressway

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