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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
  • Timed drug delivery for recovery Heart attack patients often undergo bypass surgery to improve blood flow, but that procedure doesn’t repair the dead tissue.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Malware creators use this trick to bypass detection.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 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
  • Things are little different on the East Coast, says Kristina Cannon, president and CEO of Main Street Skowhegan, which hosts Skijor Skowhegan at the town’s fairgrounds.
    Cari Shane, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
  • FanDuel Sports Network is operated by Main Street Sports Group.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The driver, later identified as Sampson, continued to drive recklessly at high speed and exited the interstate and headed into downtown Ybor City.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The referendum also performed poorly in parts of north Mecklenburg west of Interstate 77, despite support for the plan in many precincts in the north to the east of the interstate.
    Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The vision of the new company is to use the superhighway to bring different rules or different data sources to help the user in their document creation or communication.
    Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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 26 Nov. 2025.

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