parkway

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Recent Examples of parkway Embers from the fire jumped over the parkway on Tuesday night, sparking several small blazes near a defunct nuclear power plant known as Oyster Creek, according to state officials. Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025 Kimberly Warren, a project manager for Meridian Parks and Recreation, also noted a desire to see additional plans for pathways, including a parkway along Five Mile Creek. Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 3 June 2025 The Natchez Trace Parkway is a scenic parkway and cycling route that extends 444 miles to Nashville and includes historic markers, lush forests and rolling hills. Amy Bentley, Oc Register, 7 May 2025 When officers attempted to pull the car over, Wright, who was accompanied by a passenger, exited the parkway at a high rate of speed, then got back on again and sped off, Chell said. Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for parkway
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Noun
  • And in 1956 the Federal-Aid Highway Act funded 41,000 miles of interstate—an asphalt backbone justified as civil defense infrastructure but experienced as a coast-to-coast permission slip for self-reinvention.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
  • The witnesses described seeing the suspect and victim's vehicles come to a stop in front of them, forcing them to stop on the interstate, as well, the probable cause statement says.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • All the recent headline Gmail attacks abuse Google’s legitimate infrastructure to either bypass password and two-factor authentication (2fA) security or mimic Google’s own employees to trick users into opening up their own accounts to attackers.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • The researchers also touted several other medical advancements, including coronary artery bypass grafting, cardiac imaging and many new heart disease medications.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Over time, her responsibilities grew: in 2001, she was asked to oversee AMLO’s marquee project, a four-hundred-million-dollar renovation of Mexico City’s beltway.
    Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the Plowshare film, a crude animation illustrates a zipper of nuclear blasts from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to excavate a sea-level channel up to two hundred feet wide and one thousand feet deep, an oceanic superhighway across Costa Rica or Nicaragua.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • The superhighway would move large quantities of electricity from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar in remote locations, to urban and industrial centers with high energy demand.
    Deborah Wince-Smith, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2025
  • The Waymo robotaxis available through the Uber app will cover approximately 65 square miles around Atlanta, but will not yet travel on highways or to the airport.
    Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Officials from the Canton of Solothurn said the walker noticed the brick fragments and stones near the motorway bridge along the A1 motorway in Luterbach, according to a May 20 Facebook post.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • My week consists of going to and from dog parks via motorways and B-roads after working hours.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Beer plays Laura, a piano student at a music academy in Berlin, first seen in the opening shots on an autobahn overpass looking down at a river.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
  • During my test driving, which comprised about 45 miles, in a variety of modes and at a variety of speeds including close to 100mph on a German autobahn, the car achieved close to 3 miles per kWh.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Pinterest, Reddit, Spotify and Salesforce now command the iconic boulevard.
    Steven Wolfe Pereira, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • The epicenter of the community is Westwood, where the namesake boulevard is speckled with storefronts covered in Persian script.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025

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“Parkway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parkway. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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