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Recent Examples of ring road
The 58-acre site and its 15-acre ring road are expected to be listed for sale in early 2026.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
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Devers spent the offseason working on his defense and has been one of many infielders in camp working with Ron Washington, whose passion for teaching infield defense hasn’t waned after undergoing a quadruple bypass heart surgery last year.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Actual repairs to the pipe, estimated to take four to six weeks, can’t begin until a stronger bypass system is activated and the massive rocks blocking the Interceptor can be removed, one by one.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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The small parkway rectangle is sometimes all the space their roots have, and those roots are easily damaged.—
Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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Other more difficult routes off the parkway include Shades of Beauty, Kerkeslin Falls, and Curtain Call.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Feb. 2026
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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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Temperatures may dip below 10° outside of the beltway and low to mid-teens across the immediate metro.—
Steven Sosna,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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In recent days, as Netflix became an increasingly serious contender to take over the storied, century-old studio home to the The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, and The Lord of the Rings, the service faced pushback both within Hollywood’s 30-mile zone and inside the Washington beltway.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
5 Dec. 2025
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Antioch officers ended their pursuit before the Honda entered Oakley, but an Oakley officer then chased the car down Main Street and past nearly half a dozen major intersections.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Plans to build rowhouses at the northwest corner of Benton Avenue and Main Street in downtown Naperville will proceed despite pushback from some neighbors over the project’s height and density.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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The crash happened after the vehicle went off the right side of the interstate.—
Jesse Sarles,
CBS News,
21 Feb. 2026
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That involves the construction of express lanes over the existing interstate or to the side of it, the Observer previously reported.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Feb. 2026
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Whether from land or sea, visitors can witness what is essentially a whale-migration superhighway.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Feb. 2026
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Those bogus images and videos spread not just on X, but also along other superhighways of falsehoods, notably the Meta platforms Instagram, Facebook and Threads, albeit with less engagement.—
James Warren,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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The traffic on the M1 motorway had come to a total standstill.—
Stuart James,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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He had been found in the snow by the motorway heading to the airport, and after his stomach had been pumped at Sabbatsberg Hospital he was taken to Beckomberga.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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