Thesaurus results for LANES

lanes

noun

plural of lane

as in roads

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Recent Examples of lanes That five-year project between El Toro Road and State Route 73 added new lanes in each direction between Avery and Alicia parkways and a second carpool lane from Alicia Parkway to El Toro Road. — Heather McRea, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026 All Southbound lanes of Junipero Serra are closed to all traffic due to the Light Pole blocking all lane. — Jose Fabian, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026

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Noun

Two people were killed in as many crashes on Arkansas roads on Friday, according to preliminary police reports.

— Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
Rain was also developing near Key Largo, with slick roads possible during the morning commute.

— Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of roads

Noun

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern cite 500-plus supportive customers, more than 2,000 filed statements, and backers including trucking giant Knight-Swift and a claim of 2 million fewer truckloads on highways.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
For decades, the story has focused on population loss, empty storefronts, highways that divided neighborhoods and a downtown that too often goes quiet after work.

— Mark Taylor, Hartford Courant, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of highways

Noun

Some streets in Norfolk, Virginia, were closed Wednesday due to flooding and several are expected to be impassable during high tide Thursday, City Councilman Thomas Smigiel said in a social media post.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
The most famous photograph of the early Second World War is of a Frenchman weeping at the sight of Nazi soldiers parading through the streets of Marseilles in 1940.

— Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of streets

Noun

Ishmita Shah, a roads engineer, said crews have been working with Nepal's army since the second day after the floods to reopen routes in affected areas.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
That is important for industrial facilities, where inspection routes can cross multiple buildings, zones, and types of infrastructure.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of routes

Noun

Rather, the issue is a combination of shadowing (physically blocking radar signal paths), clutter, multipath reflections, and moving turbine blades that makes the radar picture messy.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
Readiness is demonstrated when the team can use its actual tools, telemetry, playbooks and escalation paths to detect, investigate, contain and recover from an attack.

— David Etue, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of paths

Noun

The massive project funded from 13 federal, state and local agencies, gives a glimpse of what’s to come for Long Beach thoroughfares.

— Barbara Kingsley-Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Two years later, Wong became one of the key leaders of the city’s Umbrella Movement protests that rallied thousands of predominantly young people to the streets to call for greater democracy by blocking major thoroughfares for 79 straight days.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of thoroughfares

Noun

Instead of wide postwar boulevards, roads would become slower and leaner, transforming Long Beach into a top-five global cycling city, said former city traffic engineer Paul Van Dyk.

— Barbara Kingsley-Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Visitors often still liken the city’s walkable streets and historic architecture to European boulevards.

— Colleen McNally Arnett, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of boulevards

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