ring road

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of ring road In addition to passing through different parts of the city, the route led them through suburban regions within London's M25 ring road. New Atlas, 11 Apr. 2025 The London Orbital Motorway, or the M25, is a vast ring road that runs in a shaggy circle around the outer edges of the capital. Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025 Projects include installing additional 50-amp outlets to the inner ring road, security lighting, and 50-amp outlets to the east parking lot and to the area west of the grandstand. ATTORNEY: Approved a resolution to hire Thomas Borgen as assistant McLeod County attorney. Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025 Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena. James Horncastle, The Athletic, 2 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for ring road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
  • Underwood has muscular dystrophy and has endured three heart attacks and a quadruple bypass.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Adversaries could use the system to generate malicious code or bypass safeguards, or find ways to manipulate outputs to generate harmful outputs.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Jeremy Poore, 49, of Old Fort co-runs Mountaintop Shuttle, a shuttle business that relies on a portion of the parkway that remains closed.
    Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Along with picking up trash, the foundation invited volunteers to pull invasive plants, repaint picnic tables and remove unsightly graffiti to conserve the parkway for everyone to enjoy.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2025
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
Noun
  • Participants in the Peoples Convoy of truckers protesting pandemic restrictions drive the beltway around Washington near Cabin John, Maryland, on March 6, 2022.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Walt Disney’s original vision was all-American, right down to the flags along Main Street USA, and the company now exports Americana all around the world.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Friday-Saturday, Fifth Street (starting at Main Street and ending on Columbia Parkway), Downtown.
    Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Routh allegedly fled the scene but was later arrested by a local sheriff's office on a nearby interstate.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The mobility hub construction project will create slip ramps near I-25’s Lincoln Avenue exit for Bustang transit services and a pedestrian bridge over the interstate, according to state transportation officials.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That is a critical step for Korea’s plan to build an energy superhighway to carry renewables across the nation.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Don't let your investment in a state-of-the-art superhighway be compromised by an inability to see the traffic.
    Serge Lucio, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The northern part of the island was at a standstill, schools closed, traffic snailing down the motorway.
    Ariel Saramandi, The Dial, 29 July 2025
  • Police found Alia's head and the axe in a bag in her car, which Jesse R. was driving when arrested on the A4 motorway, according to the NL Times news site.
    Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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