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Recent Examples of motorway
Drive down the motorway in Auckland, and there’s a chance your vehicle will be swarmed and overtaken by dozens of bikies out on a weekend ride.
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Todd Symons, CNN Money, 24 Dec. 2025
Redouane, a 20-year police veteran who spends his nights chasing smugglers on Belgium’s busy motorway network, also features in the film.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
Redouane, a police officer for 20 years, spends his nights chasing smugglers on Belgium’s busy motorway network.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
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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Todd Symons, CNN Money, 24 Dec. 2025
Redouane, a 20-year police veteran who spends his nights chasing smugglers on Belgium’s busy motorway network, also features in the film.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
Redouane, a police officer for 20 years, spends his nights chasing smugglers on Belgium’s busy motorway network.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motorway
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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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Authorities said Richardson was driving 104 mph and dangerously passing other motorists on the highway.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Interstates 55 and 22 remained closed in northern Mississippi as emergency crews used tow trucks and snowplows to clear the highways.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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The building is at the Lowell and Hebron interstate exits, which now towers over the longstanding retail store, The Lion’s Den.—
Anna Ortiz,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
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The map shows a total of 308 acres included in the project, including 271 acres to the south of the interstate and 57 acres to the north.—
Ryan Ballogg,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
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Those bogus images and videos spread not just on X, but also along other superhighways of falsehoods, notably the Meta platforms Instagram, Facebook and Threads, albeit with less engagement.—
James Warren,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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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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One driver learned the hard way that even a freeway that's been plowed can still have icy, slick spots to cause out-of-control spins.—
J.D. Miles,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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International artists from Amsterdam, Nepal and Australia paint alongside locals, transforming concrete facades into an open-air gallery visible from the freeway.—
Audrey T. Williams,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Surrounded by vast desert, the long and windy road that leads to Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills is dotted with prickly cacti and attractive houses.—
Amanda Musa,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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This combination of road salt and brine helps to prevent the snow and ice from bonding to the pavement, keeping roads from getting too slick and causing car accidents.—
Molly Burford,
Southern Living,
3 Feb. 2026
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There’s also a Huracán Polizia version The Italian Highway Patrol uses a Huracán with police badging and a lightbar on the autostradas in and around Bologna.—
Sean Evans,
Robb Report,
2 Apr. 2024
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Barreling down the autostrada, idling in front of our hotel, or stopping for gas, coffee, or red lights, the wagon drew constant admiration and approval.—
Tony Quiroga,
Car and Driver,
12 Aug. 2023
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Worthington spent his first years in France on a meagre wage, grateful that the club paid his expenses for trundling up and down the autoroute in his Fiat Punto: a 14-hour round trip to Lyon, a 16-hour there and back to Marseille.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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The bridge carries the A75 autoroute across the Tarn valley, stretching 2,460 meters.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Motorway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motorway. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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