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ring road

noun

Definition of ring road

chiefly British

as in bypass

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Recent Examples of ring road The stadium, situated on the city’s ring road, is a throwback to a less refined age in English football, with a facade that blends barbed wire and concrete in a way that has changed little since the days when Savile ruled the UK’s airwaves. — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026 Two sites inside of what had been the mall’s ring road are under consideration for the station, according to village documents. — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026 The 58-acre site and its 15-acre ring road are expected to be listed for sale in early 2026. — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025 Indeed, while many visitors like to take in the otherworldly sights of this mystical country by driving its ring road, the best, and easily most relaxing way, is to explore everything Iceland has to offer by sea. — Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ring road

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Noun

The second line allows the temporary bypass to convey up to 30 million gallons per day, allowing the system to better accommodate wet weather as the city starts work on permanent repairs.

— Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 7 July 2026
Scott underwent heart surgery in 2025 Scott, who previously had cancer, underwent quintuple bypass surgery in June 2025, PEOPLE confirmed a month later in July.

— Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026

Definition of bypass

Noun

The parkway was evacuated Saturday evening while droves of people were still in line to enter due to approaching thunderstorms.

— Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Some of the parkway’s most spectacular stretches can be found here in the Tar Heel State, especially just south of Asheville.

— Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026

Definition of parkway

Noun

Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads.

— The Economist, The Economist, 23 May 2020
The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire.

— Fox News, Fox News, 16 July 2018

Definition of dual carriageway

Noun

Over 85% of federal employees live outside of the Washington, DC, beltway, with states like Florida, Texas and California hubs for more than 100,000 workers each, government data shows.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
And that car then made a corner and slammed into a concrete jersey barrier on the beltway.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026

Definition of beltway

Noun

Initially that was the reaction from some board members of the cemetery’s association that oversees Spring Grove, off Main Street in the city’s Northeast neighborhood.

— Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
The northside restaurant moved from Central to the current North Main Street building in 1998.

— Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2026

Definition of Main Street

Noun

Welfy Espinal, 25, and Lenyn Toribio, 27, were charged in a federal indictment unsealed in June with interstate stalking resulting in death for the shocking slay of 24-year-old Jeremy Ortega in April 2025.

— Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 9 July 2026
More than 500 homes and businesses in the historically Black neighborhood of Parramore were taken through eminent domain and bulldozed to build the interstate.

— Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026

Definition of interstate

Noun

Our strategic position between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi watershed set our course as a commerce superhighway, with the Chicago Portage connecting two vast trading routes between the Atlantic and the Gulf.

— Alaina Harkness, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Mycorrhizal fungi direct traffic through nutrient superhighways and restructure the soil to support life across entire ecosystems.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

Definition of superhighway

Noun

In May, a minibus rammed into a bus parked along a motorway in northwest Pakistan, killing 17 people and injuring five others.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Locals, including governor Garcia, stand on the banks of the nearby motorway — part of which has been shut to accommodate the fans going to the march — to take photos.

— Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 15 June 2026

Definition of motorway

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