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

Parents pushed strollers with infants, as men, women and children of all ages crammed onto the street.

— Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
The bike lane is raised a little from the street, and then the sidewalk is raised a little from the bike lane.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

Definition of street

Noun

Ling’s crew prepped, and the film crew shot, one side of Hollywood Boulevard at a time so as not to interrupt the tourism activities on the boulevard.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 July 2026
Four-way stops are substantially less efficient for all traffic than two-way stops and are intended as traffic-calming measures to prevent reckless, high-speed driving on quiet boulevards.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2026

Definition of boulevard

Noun

Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
Jakarta, Indonesia — A pickup truck carrying wedding guests was crushed between two trucks on a busy highway on Indonesia's main island of Java, killing 13 people and injuring five others, police said Monday.

— CBS News, CBS News, 13 July 2026

Definition of highway

Noun

The unearthed quarters included north-south thoroughfares intersected by east-west streets, forming open squares and public spaces, said Hisham el-Leithy, secretary general of the supreme council of antiquities.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Others outside proudly waved their flags on the neighborhood thoroughfare, Westwood Boulevard.

— Jesus Jiménez, New York Times, 30 June 2026

Definition of thoroughfare

Noun

Britney Spears is speaking out after being spotted hanging out of the sunroof of an SUV on a busy Los Angeles freeway.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 July 2026
For decades, the powers that be have burdened the Eastside with freeways, warehouses, public corruption, unsightly developments that have brought on gentrification and civic negligence bordering on the criminal.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of freeway

Noun

Things also remain precarious in the Strait of Hormuz – and experts say the latest attacks likely won’t remove Iran’s ability to threaten shipping in one of the world’s most important energy arteries.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 9 July 2026
Five years ago, the two main arteries for international oil and gas trade were Russian LNG pipelines to Europe, and the Middle East to Asia via the Strait of Hormuz.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 9 July 2026

Definition of artery

Noun

About two thirds is south of Interstate 595 and one third north of the expressway.

— Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2026
The alert triggered temporary closures along a major highway, the Décarie expressway, as well as a temporary shutdown of significant sections of two subway lines.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2026

Definition of expressway

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