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Recent Examples of motorway
The driver who was behind the wheel of the car that crashed on a Nigerian motorway, injuring British boxer Anthony Joshua and killing two others, has been charged.
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Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2026
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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Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2026
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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Here's what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2026
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Chain controls are in effect on several highways in Butte County as snow falls as low as 1,000 feet in some places, officials reported.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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The crash happened after the vehicle went off the right side of the interstate.—
Jesse Sarles,
CBS News,
21 Feb. 2026
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That involves the construction of express lanes over the existing interstate or to the side of it, the Observer previously reported.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Feb. 2026
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Whether from land or sea, visitors can witness what is essentially a whale-migration superhighway.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Feb. 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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Torrey Pines kids were fighting and SDA kids were walking their freeway on-ramps with teachers during their ICE-out protests instead of being in class.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2026
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The express lane on the 110 North was flooded, forcing vehicles onto the freeway’s already crowded regular lanes.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The road to get to the cabin lodgings of Dunton Hot Springs, the 1800s ghost town turned resort tucked in the San Juan Mountains of the Colorado Rockies, is paved with bad WiFi.—
Fiorella Valdesolo,
Vogue,
25 Feb. 2026
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Unlike the road to other types of pain, which come from damage to flesh and bone, the road to a migraine is mysterious.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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 25 Feb. 2026.
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