parkway

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Recent Examples of parkway The killings of Thomas, 27, and Dowski, 21, were among at least eight murders and disappearances of young people that occurred along or near the parkway and its surrounding areas between 1986 and 1989, the FBI said. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026 Trump says about $2,000 tariff dividend checks 🛣️ This parkway has existed for over 10,000 years. Will Richmond, The Providence Journal, 14 Jan. 2026 On the day before Thanksgiving at Milwaukee’s Congress School off the Lincoln Creek parkway on the city's west side, students were out for fall break but the school was abuzz. Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 1 Dec. 2025 There is a parkway planting of desert willows on the east side of Hayvenhurst Avenue, south of Magnolia Boulevard in Encino. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parkway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parkway
Noun
  • The interstate, which closed in both directions Friday evening, reopened around noon Saturday.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The casino is bereft of any architectural aspiration; many new warehouses along the interstate are more interesting.
    Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Devers spent the offseason working on his defense and has been one of many infielders in camp working with Ron Washington, whose passion for teaching infield defense hasn’t waned after undergoing a quadruple bypass heart surgery last year.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Actual repairs to the pipe, estimated to take four to six weeks, can’t begin until a stronger bypass system is activated and the massive rocks blocking the Interceptor can be removed, one by one.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Temperatures may dip below 10° outside of the beltway and low to mid-teens across the immediate metro.
    Steven Sosna, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In recent days, as Netflix became an increasingly serious contender to take over the storied, century-old studio home to the The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, and The Lord of the Rings, the service faced pushback both within Hollywood’s 30-mile zone and inside the Washington beltway.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The traffic on the M1 motorway had come to a total standstill.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • He had been found in the snow by the motorway heading to the airport, and after his stomach had been pumped at Sabbatsberg Hospital he was taken to Beckomberga.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The path built by the city’s tractors, right next to the sidewalk on the north-south boulevard, created tire marks that look like an off-road vehicle came through and plowed down healthy vegetation.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Oklahoma native Tom Koulax opens a chili burger stand at Beverly and Rampart boulevards in Los Angeles.
    Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 17 Feb. 2026

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“Parkway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parkway. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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