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Recent Examples of interstate
The local outlet reported that the New Jersey State Trooper had his emergency lights and sirens activated at the time of the crash in an attempt to alert the other drivers on the interstate.
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Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
The crash caused a temporary closure of the interstate, which reopened later Saturday.
Sgt.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 30 Nov. 2025
The driver, later identified as Sampson, continued to drive recklessly at high speed and exited the interstate and headed into downtown Ybor City.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 9 Nov. 2025
Road work will also affect a stretch of the Valley interstate's frontage road.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
The crash caused a temporary closure of the interstate, which reopened later Saturday.
Sgt.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 30 Nov. 2025
The driver, later identified as Sampson, continued to drive recklessly at high speed and exited the interstate and headed into downtown Ybor City.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 9 Nov. 2025
Road work will also affect a stretch of the Valley interstate's frontage road.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interstate
Noun
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
9 Nov. 2025
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Newsom’s closure of that highway, where shrapnel actually fell on police vehicles, probably saved both lives and plenty of property damage.—
Thomas Elias,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Officers issued a SigAlert for all eastbound lanes of the freeway between Crenshaw Boulevard and Arlington Avenue as their investigation continued.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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In Arizona, our driving laws are influenced by factors like busy freeways in metro Phoenix, monsoon season flooding, outdated transportation modes and distracted driving laws.—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But it was actually set in motion a year ago, when the Midcontinent Independent System Operator – the power grid operator for the central United States – approved a suite of projects to build a transmission superhighway across the upper Midwest.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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The team said the quantity and pattern of tracks - and the fact they were all found in the same sediment layer - suggest that dinosaurs didn't settle in what is now Bolivia as much as trudge along an ancient coastal superhighway stretching from southern Peru into northwest Argentina.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Questions remain on how infrastructure cost, power grid integration, and billing models will scale for longer stretches of motorway.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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The crash occurred on Wednesday, Sept. 10, on the M57 motorway in Knowsley, a village in England, the Merseyside Police said in a news release.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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The state could build a high-speed autobahn for a fraction of the cost to move residents from the southern half of the state to the northern half and vice versa.—
John Moorlach,
Oc Register,
14 Dec. 2025
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The final drive day sees guests back on the autobahn and up into the incredible views afforded along German Alpine Road.—
Duncan Madden,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Running Fence was envisioned as a fabric-laden fence that would traverse Sonoma and Marin counties in Northern California to the sea, crossing roads, highways, and private property.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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If there is no parking lot or driveway to pull into, pull your vehicle off to the side of the road as far as possible.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The parkway was a fitting tribute to a man whose engineering genius helped shape both the city’s movement and its map.—
Michael Wells,
Kansas City Star,
22 Oct. 2025
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Jeremy Poore, 49, of Old Fort co-runs Mountaintop Shuttle, a shuttle business that relies on a portion of the parkway that remains closed.—
Graham Hurley,
CNN Money,
21 Sep. 2025
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Joshua was a passenger in a Lexus Jeep that smashed into a stationary truck while traveling along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Makun, according to local news outlets The Punch, The Daily Sun and The Guardian.—
Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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The three left lanes of the expressway were all blocked.—
Kris Habermehl,
CBS News,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Interstate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interstate. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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