as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
a cow wandered into the roadway
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Recent Examples of roadway
Authorities say the vehicle left the roadway at a high rate of speed before striking the children.
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Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026
The city of San Diego has managed the trail and adjacent roadway through its public right-of-way authority to effectively function as a flexible corridor.
—Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
Protests began April 7 with slow-moving convoys clogging roadways.
—Brian Melley, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Clemens said Lake County’s roadway system currently has 11 open to traffic.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
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Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026
The city of San Diego has managed the trail and adjacent roadway through its public right-of-way authority to effectively function as a flexible corridor.
—Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
Protests began April 7 with slow-moving convoys clogging roadways.
—Brian Melley, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Clemens said Lake County’s roadway system currently has 11 open to traffic.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roadway
Noun
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Drivers heading back to their villages along coastal highways cheered each other, flashed victory signs and exchanged blessings.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Mingo Junction, a village a few miles down the highway, was recently used as the backdrop for a low-budget zombie movie.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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Pittsburgh Regional Transit Officials are urging people attending the draft and going to Pittsburgh to use public transit with major road closures and traffic restrictions that will be in place throughout the three-day event.—
Mike Darnay,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Anaheim has an 18-20-2 record in road games and a 42-33-6 record overall.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the attacks Thursday hit near the town’s industrial zone and outside a supermarket along Nabih Berri Avenue, a main thoroughfare lined with shops and residential buildings.—
Yarden Segev,
NBC news,
16 Apr. 2026
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The 44-year-old father from Honduras felt like his head was on a swivel, greeting the handful of shoppers that approached while also scanning the busy thoroughfare behind him.—
Wendi C. Thomas,
ProPublica,
15 Apr. 2026
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On the streets of Saigon, there was widespread looting.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Four people were wounded after someone opened fire during a street takeover in the San Gabriel Valley, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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In New Orleans, one of the earliest slammers was a jovial fellow named Damian Labeaud, who, starting in 2010, recruited passengers from the local community with the promise of insurance payouts, then took them hunting on the freeway for a truck.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Three of Rove’s future centers will be near freeway interchanges.—
Samantha Gowen,
Oc Register,
13 Apr. 2026
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Those include lots near Rivers Casino, near the expressway and a parking garage just past PNC Park.—
Chris Hoffman,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Board of Supervisors Chair Shanti Landon, who represents western Placer County, said the expressway is an investment in the region’s future.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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The man had exited an ambulance that stopped to provide further treatment on the northbound carriageway between Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon while taking him to the hospital.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
2 Dec. 2025
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Photographs have shown large potholes on certain stretches and, at the scene, The Athletic was told that parts of the carriageway were so badly affected that ambulance drivers preferred to use only the fast (left) lane rather than crossing from one side to the other.—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
4 July 2025
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The poor design of that route was a key factor in the crash along with air traffic controllers relying too much on pilots seeing and avoiding other aircraft.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Tennessee used him frequently on deep crossers and vertical routes, where his stride length and tracking ability popped.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Roadway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roadway. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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