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as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
I think we should take one of the less congested roads
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Recent Examples of road
There is a road closure on Liberty Street from Wyoming Street exit 1B to I-670 West.
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Kansas City Star, 9 June 2025
But Woldenberg, who holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and who worked at a corporate law firm before joining the family business, has been down this road before.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
There are also four Nation Forest System roads that are impacted by the fire that need to be assessed for hazards.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025
Panahi was last in the Cannes Competition with 3 Faces in 2019, a political road movie starring Iranian star Behnaz Jafari.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 May 2025
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Kansas City Star, 9 June 2025
But Woldenberg, who holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and who worked at a corporate law firm before joining the family business, has been down this road before.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
There are also four Nation Forest System roads that are impacted by the fire that need to be assessed for hazards.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025
Panahi was last in the Cannes Competition with 3 Faces in 2019, a political road movie starring Iranian star Behnaz Jafari.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for road
Noun
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This case follows another that occurred in 2018, when armed men kidnapped two members of the musical group Los Norteños de Río Bravo, whose bodies were later found on the federal highway connecting Reynosa to Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 May 2025
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There are about 545 active capital projects planned for this year on state highways, bridges and roads.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
31 May 2025
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The Surface Transportation Board does only railroads.—
Stephen L. Carter,
Twin Cities,
6 June 2025
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The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District, which operates the railroad, began seeking public comments Thursday on future improvements and priorities.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
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Today, most houses on the street are appraised at $1 million or more.—
Hollace Ava Weiner,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 June 2025
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Like the old streets in so many cities, which were meant to bring out the history, turned out to be repetitions everywhere.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Both have been neglected for years: Bridges are crumbling, school buildings disintegrating, and trains — once a symbol of German efficiency — are now so unreliable that some lines are banned from neighboring Switzerland’s railways.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
4 June 2025
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Meanwhile, Russian railway authorities say a separate rail bridge collapsed in the neighboring Kursk region hours later — derailing a freight train and injuring several crew members.—
Charles Maynes,
NPR,
2 June 2025
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But that Miami location near the busy LeJeune Road thoroughfare that leads from Miami International Airport five miles away also once made this Sears a popular destination with tourists.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
19 May 2025
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Lamia is laser-focused on fulfilling her cake-baking duty, but Bibi has made this trip with another purpose, one that divides the two and sets Lamia on a quest through the city’s thoroughfares and backstreets and bustling souk, with its hawkers and their wares.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2025
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The collision occurred about 4:15 a.m. in the freeway’s northbound lanes, near Everman Parkway, Fort Worth police said.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 May 2025
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Install cameras at freeway on-ramps to cite people who drive in diamond lanes (alone) getting onto the freeway.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 May 2025
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But there’s another route this could go down, a silent divorce.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
5 June 2025
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Every day at the start of practice, the wide receivers line up and run half-speed routes to get loose, while the quarterbacks throw high-arcing passes downfield.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
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Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
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Central Florida’s anger over a planned toll road through Split Oak Forest figured into a flood of objections to the reappointment of a South Florida businessman to the state wildlife commission, which gave its blessing last year to build an expressway through the treasured preserve.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/road. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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