ring road

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of ring road The birthday festivities include a wide range of events, from neighborhood festivals, the closure of the A10 ring road and a grand parade of tall ships culminating in a big party on the actual anniversary date of October 27, 2025. Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for ring road
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Noun
  • While the missile could, in theory, bypass missile defenses, each test risks radioactive fallout if the reactor disintegrates during flight or on impact.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • That screening was worth the wait for some motorists trying to avoid 17th Street traffic before the bypass opened, but now agents won’t need to check your ID or open your trunk to let you through.
    Rafael Olmeda, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The parkway was a fitting tribute to a man whose engineering genius helped shape both the city’s movement and its map.
    Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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
  • His most obvious gift to Louisville, however, appears on Main Street downtown.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Cardiff 101 Main Street and BEAM Orthodontics welcome all to Kringle Mingle, a free and festive holiday celebration for the whole community.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There, passers-by may have noticed Lindsey Vonn, wearing a silver fringe dress, sticking a sign in the mud off the interstate.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The Nissan traveled on northbound I-49 at speeds over 120 mph, according to the probable cause statement, before exiting the interstate, when a box containing a silver pistol was thrown from the vehicle.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By acting like a superhighway for ion signals, graphene ensures that these signals reach the electronic system efficiently, allowing lithium levels to be measured quickly and reliably, and marking a significant step forward in sensor performance.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 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
  • Questions remain on how infrastructure cost, power grid integration, and billing models will scale for longer stretches of motorway.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The crash occurred on Wednesday, Sept. 10, on the M57 motorway in Knowsley, a village in England, the Merseyside Police said in a news release.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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