as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
one of the city's main thoroughfares
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Recent Examples of thoroughfare
Officers ordered trucks and tractors blocking O’Connell Street, the main thoroughfare in the capital of Dublin, to clear out early Sunday.
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Brian Melley, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
Officers ordered trucks and tractors blocking O’Connell Street, the main thoroughfare in the capital of Dublin, to clear out early Sunday.
—ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
But in towns along the way, the road feels more like the two-lane thoroughfare that lives in memory.
—Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 12 Apr. 2026
Construction crews will be widening a two-mile stretch of Avondale-Haslet Road over the next two years as part of a larger project aimed at creating a continuous east-west thoroughfare in far north Fort Worth.
—Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2026
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Brian Melley, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
Officers ordered trucks and tractors blocking O’Connell Street, the main thoroughfare in the capital of Dublin, to clear out early Sunday.
—ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
But in towns along the way, the road feels more like the two-lane thoroughfare that lives in memory.
—Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 12 Apr. 2026
Construction crews will be widening a two-mile stretch of Avondale-Haslet Road over the next two years as part of a larger project aimed at creating a continuous east-west thoroughfare in far north Fort Worth.
—Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thoroughfare
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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
Noun
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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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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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Today, fountains can be found across KC’s courtyards, plazas and boulevards in all shapes and sizes.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
16 Apr. 2026
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Extending the boulevard toward West Summit Avenue would give residents a new way to travel, which could lessen traffic in the congested area where I-77 connects with I-277, Woliansky said.—
Desiree Mathurin
April 15,
Charlotte Observer,
15 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 company points to advanced monitoring technology, including a fleet of gas‑sniffing vehicles that survey pipelines from roadways.—
Lexi Salazar,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Several callers told dispatchers that a motorcycle and a vehicle collided, throwing the motorcyclist from the bike and into the roadway, police said.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Thoroughfare.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thoroughfare. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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