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Recent Examples of secondary road
On Saturday, officials in northern Alabama said schools could remain closed Monday if ice doesn't melt off secondary roads.
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Sara Cline and Ben Finley The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Taking secondary roads with lower speed limits or postponing travel during squall warnings are advised.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Steward’s walk was the real deal: a four-hour amble along secondary roads past farmsteads and olive groves, the undulating terrain fanning out around us on all sides.
—Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
Tuesday morning, the state’s road closure report included 579 – three on interstates, 38 federal highways, 58 state roads, and 480 secondary roads.
—Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Oct. 2024
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Sara Cline and Ben Finley The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Taking secondary roads with lower speed limits or postponing travel during squall warnings are advised.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Steward’s walk was the real deal: a four-hour amble along secondary roads past farmsteads and olive groves, the undulating terrain fanning out around us on all sides.
—Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
Tuesday morning, the state’s road closure report included 579 – three on interstates, 38 federal highways, 58 state roads, and 480 secondary roads.
—Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secondary road
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Tucked down a side road, the building was anonymous, without a doorbell or a knocker, its purpose betrayed only by a slight smear of reddish paint on the front door.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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The side roads will be closed as well, plus there will be additional vehicle barricades and checkpoints throughout the Quarter.—
Carlie Kollath Wells,
Axios,
7 Apr. 2025
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On weekday mornings, when pedestrians would activate the signal during rush hour, roughly 10 cars would usually be backed up down a side street.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
23 May 2025
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Rodriguez was born and raised in Chicago and resided in the northwest neighborhood of Albany Park, in an apartment on a quiet, leafy residential side street.—
Becky Sullivan,
NPR,
22 May 2025
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Getting Around Oslo With high road tolls and expensive, hard-to-find parking, driving in Oslo can quickly become a hassle, putting a damper on your weekend.—
David Nikel,
Forbes,
10 Oct. 2024
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The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.—
Allie Volpe,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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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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In one video, officers were seen throwing smoke bombs and flash bangs onto the street to get people to disperse, so the authorities could drive away in vans, SUVs and military-style vehicles.—
Greg Wehner , Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
7 June 2025
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These disruptions often result in road closures, traffic spikes and delays across key transit routes, severely affecting delivery schedules.—
Clemente Theotokis,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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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
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All three branches of state government agreed on the same candidates — drawing criticism from local residents and legal experts who say this will be a simulation of an election, not a real one.—
James Wagner,
New York Times,
1 June 2025
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Four Sacramento Public Library branches are now lending e-bikes and e-trikes to adult cardholders for up to one week.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
1 June 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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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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“Secondary road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20road. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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