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Recent Examples of ring road
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.
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Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
People were living in deep poverty right there in Oxford, on the ring road and in the outer suburbs, beyond the university.
—Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
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
Guo and Cui have lived in Beijing all their lives and have barely travelled outside of the second ring road, a rectangular beltway built in the 1980s around central Beijing, with an area roughly equivalent to the size of the old city.
—Qiang Xiaoji, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2015
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Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
People were living in deep poverty right there in Oxford, on the ring road and in the outer suburbs, beyond the university.
—Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
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
Guo and Cui have lived in Beijing all their lives and have barely travelled outside of the second ring road, a rectangular beltway built in the 1980s around central Beijing, with an area roughly equivalent to the size of the old city.
—Qiang Xiaoji, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
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In Europe, more than half of e-commerce purchases bypass credit cards altogether, favoring local payment systems instead.—
Jeff Fromm,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Adding to the drama is a clear view of the bypass valve in the rear-view mirror, feeding or re-routing boost depending on throttle input.—
Peter Nelson,
ArsTechnica,
1 Aug. 2025
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel spoke with some residents who live on the parkway near West Burleigh.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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There would be a 5-foot sidewalk on each side, along with a 5-foot landscaped parkway on each side.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 July 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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They are primarily located on the sidewalks on the city's Main Street, with a few other locations downtown, Pederson said.—
Liliana Fannin,
jsonline.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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The trees were relocated to Disneyland, where the ficuses shaded Main Street, U.S.A., and the date palms became scenery for the Jungle Cruise.—
Sam Bloch
August 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
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These routes originated at a facility on one side of an Interstate and made deliveries to larger clinics located only a couple of hundred yards away on the other side of an interstate.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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On the opposite side of the interstate, the large tractor-trailer could be seen with its left side bent outward.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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The carp escaped into the Mississippi River, which has functioned as a superhighway to travel north.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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Obama doesn't get nearly enough flack for the NATO bombing campaign in Libya, one of the most short-sighted and memory-holed American military actions in history that had the twofer effect of destroying that entire country while also opening up a superhighway of mass immigration into Europe.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 June 2025
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The northern part of the island was at a standstill, schools closed, traffic snailing down the motorway.—
Ariel Saramandi,
The Dial,
29 July 2025
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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 20 Aug. 2025.
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