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Recent Examples of railroad
Extensive damage from the hurricane put an end to a railroad dating back to 1912, the first direct, over-island route to Key West.
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Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
After the railroad went out of business around 1980, the building began to deteriorate.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2025
About 60 years earlier, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford had founded the university on his stock farm in Palo Alto, a sparsely populated town in a region where apricot and peach trees outnumbered houses.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 25 Apr. 2025
That’s why some coaches will tell runners to imagine keeping their feet on separate railroad tracks.
—Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
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Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
After the railroad went out of business around 1980, the building began to deteriorate.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2025
About 60 years earlier, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford had founded the university on his stock farm in Palo Alto, a sparsely populated town in a region where apricot and peach trees outnumbered houses.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 25 Apr. 2025
That’s why some coaches will tell runners to imagine keeping their feet on separate railroad tracks.
—Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for railroad
Noun
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The road that leads to the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit to Canada, is notoriously difficult to navigate, even for locals.—
Jasmine Garsd,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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The museum tracing the company’s history is just across the road from the coffee shop where Bastiaan Riemersma is sitting.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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While Father Vitalii was growing up in Rivne, his father, a railway engineer and former Soviet soldier, had discouraged him from pursuing a military career of his own.—
Dominique Soguel,
Christian Science Monitor,
21 Apr. 2025
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This means strengthening and building fuel tanks, skeletal bases with paved parking areas and bunkers, fiber-optic cables, and even railway sidings to permit rapid unloading of trains.—
Barry R. Posen,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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