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superhighway

noun

Definition of superhighwaynext
as in highway

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Recent Examples of superhighway First is an eight-lane superhighway, designed exclusively for massive traffic. — Judy Stecker, STAT, 27 Feb. 2026 Whether from land or sea, visitors can witness what is essentially a whale-migration superhighway. — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2026 But it was actually set in motion a year ago, when the Midcontinent Independent System Operator – the power grid operator for the central United States – approved a suite of projects to build a transmission superhighway across the upper Midwest. — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for superhighway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superhighway
  1. highway
  2. interstate
  3. motorway
  4. autobahn
  5. causeway
  6. road
  7. parkway
  8. thoroughfare
Noun
  • It’s been used to raise funds for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, a Minnesota woman caught using a racist slur on camera and to support Canadian truckers who blocked highways in protest of Covid restrictions.
    — David K. Li, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026
  • This section of the two-lane road has been carved directly into the red-quartzite cliffs of the Uncompahgre Gorge, and almost none of it has a shoulder; in some places, the highway is only twenty-three feet wide.
    — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of highway
Noun
  • Council members Malcolm Graham and Joi Mayo, whose west Charlotte districts fall in the interstate’s footprint, flipped their votes in favor.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Both men reportedly took turns filming each other while firing rifles over the interstate, at a time when traffic was stopped.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of interstate
Noun
  • And, of course, there won’t be many people who want to defend someone in that position — or, indeed, listen to any hard-luck stories — now the details have been outlined in court about his motorway rampage.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Germany and Italy expanded motorway networks—the Autobahn and the autostrada—laying the foundations for the automobile’s privileged position in this modernity.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of motorway
Noun
  • The new Stars arena will be located off the Dallas autobahn, more commonly called the Dallas North Tollway, which over the last decade has become one of the busiest main roads in DFW.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2026
  • Southbound on the autobahn, just shy of the halfway point to Munich, a 45‑minute detour east leads to Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei, brewing since 1050.
    — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
Definition of autobahn
Noun
  • The penthouses at the Pagani Residences, which is under construction in the causeway town of North Bay Village, come with a special edition Pagani hypercar worth around $3 million.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The island connects to the mainland by a causeway that gets covered by water at high tide, so it is cut off for part of each day.
    — Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of causeway
Noun
  • And neither Atlanta Public Schools nor Atlanta fire had answers for why buses and a firetruck were not told the road was blocked.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 27 Sep. 2026
  • And the road toward whatever the final destination is starts now.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of road
Noun
  • The parkway passes through Alleghany County near the Virginia state line.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Crews will return to Lisle in the spring and fall to determine which parkway trees need to be replaced, and will do so for residents who lost trees in the storms, Elias said.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of parkway
Noun
  • The massive project funded from 13 federal, state and local agencies, gives a glimpse of what’s to come for Long Beach thoroughfares.
    — Barbara Kingsley-Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Comella paid his fare at Canal Street — the driver would go no farther — and walked south on west Broadway, a thoroughfare of million-dollar lofts, to a point three blocks from the Trade Center.
    — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of thoroughfare

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