as in road
a street that is designed to connect to another street only at one end
Our house is located on a quiet cul-de-sac.
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Recent Examples of cul-de-sac
The suspects had fled into Shriner and Lauren’s Eagle Rock neighborhood, and one was seen running behind a house on Waldo Place — the cul-de-sac where the couple live with their two sons, according to NPR.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
To avoid being trapped in a funk cul-de-sac, he’s branched out to compose music for film and TV.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
In the video, the alligator walks along a cul-de-sac before resting under a white van.
—Jason Dill, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
The five-bedroom home sits on almost a half-acre of land off a secluded cul-de-sac.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2025
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
To avoid being trapped in a funk cul-de-sac, he’s branched out to compose music for film and TV.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
In the video, the alligator walks along a cul-de-sac before resting under a white van.
—Jason Dill, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
The five-bedroom home sits on almost a half-acre of land off a secluded cul-de-sac.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cul-de-sac
Noun
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From Stagecoach, the California native will head to Las Vegas with his current road band — guitarist Joe Satriani, drummer Kenny Aronoff and former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony — to launch a residency at the Park MGM casino.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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The road that leads to the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit to Canada, is notoriously difficult to navigate, even for locals.—
Jasmine Garsd,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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The Butterfly Farm, located on the island’s main thoroughfare, J. Irausquin Boulevard, in Orangestad, is home to hundreds of butterflies originally from South America, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, Australia, China, Africa and Malaysia.—
Gary Stoller,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Set right on the thoroughfare that runs through its famed namesake area, you are surrounded by a wealth of shops, restaurants, and historical sites.—
Christina Liao,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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Fewer vehicles on our roads also lessen the need for costly and harmful highway expansions, which consistently fail to reduce traffic.—
Jill Locantore,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2025
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Here's what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
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The nearly 12-mile stretch of I-4 in Orange and Osceola counties between State Road 528 and State Road 429 jumped to first place among the most clogged roadways in the nation in 2023 after ranking tenth the previous year, according to INRIX.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2025
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The highway between the cities and parks is your average roadway, with gas stations, restaurants, and the like.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Apr. 2025
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This also follows Barcelona residents taking matters into their own hands in July 2024, when 3,000 residents protested against tourism by squirting visitors with water guns on Las Ramblas boulevard.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The former Probation Department lot offers a hideaway bounded by Crenshaw and Obama boulevards and the Expo Line and is sealed off from a row of apartment buildings to its west by a tall wall and shrubbery.—
Doug Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2025
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Two Turkey fans stood in the middle of a three-lane carriageway.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
6 July 2024
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The project, first launched in 2019, broke ground in February 2023 to connect the A417 highway bypass to the Cowley roundabout, a section of road that is currently a single-lane carriageway that slows traffic, transportation officials said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
10 May 2024
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Rather than limiting revenue potential, these innovations can open new avenues for business.—
Selika Josiah Talbott,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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There are still many avenues for research on the direct benefits of celery and celery juice for human health.—
Hannah Coakley, MSPH, RDN,
Verywell Health,
21 Apr. 2025
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One lane is closed from 119th Street to 135th Street on southbound US-69.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
23 Apr. 2025
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There was the controversial addition of self-checkout lanes.—
Nate Rogers,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Cul-de-sac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cul-de-sac. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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