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Recent Examples of traffic circle
Three graves with 15 bodies were found within a mile of the city’s iconic La Minerva roundabout, a huge traffic circle featuring fountains, greenery and a towering statue of the Roman goddess Minerva.
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Steve Fisher,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
In the 1990s, while the area around Columbus Circle was being rebuilt by private developers, the city was considering an upgrade to the traffic circle itself.
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Lucius Riccio,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2026
The site is currently a grassy traffic circle at the foot of Memorial Bridge.
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Arden Farhi,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
At least one driver was clocked at a traffic circle coming into town going 113 mph in a 40 mph zone.
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Tanya Babbar,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Apr. 2026
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Steve Fisher,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
In the 1990s, while the area around Columbus Circle was being rebuilt by private developers, the city was considering an upgrade to the traffic circle itself.
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Lucius Riccio,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2026
The site is currently a grassy traffic circle at the foot of Memorial Bridge.
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Arden Farhi,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
At least one driver was clocked at a traffic circle coming into town going 113 mph in a 40 mph zone.
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Tanya Babbar,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for traffic circle
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The former project would place two natural rocks topped with pelican statues in La Jolla Boulevard medians next to the pedestrian crossings south of the Colima Street roundabout and north of the Camino de la Costa roundabout.
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Crews will replace the concrete truck apron inside the roundabout.
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As with its other disco dance floors in Delray Beach and around the country, this location will be adorned in Farrah Fawcett posters, trucker hats and rotary telephones, serve retro drinks like a Dirty Ash Tray and bump to the Bee Gees and Earth, Wind & Fire.
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Standard Rotary Blade Push Mower To adjust the mower height on a standard rotary-blade push mower, start by locating the adjustment levers.
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The culmination of the event saw people filtering into the shore to create a circle of colorful surfboards dotted with flowers to toss into the ocean to honor ancestors, invoke healing and celebrate the relationship between Black people and the ocean.
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But even as his social circle broadened, there was perhaps no one more influential on Greenspan than Ayn Rand.
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Court documents say that the two victims were driving east on Highway 62 on the Interstate 35W interchange when Morgan approached from behind in an unmarked black Ford Expedition.
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Construction is underway on the $74 million rail expansion at the port’s 302-305 berths and the $130 million reconfiguration of the SR 47/Vincent Thomas Bridge interchange.
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But residents of the surrounding area have complained for years that the nearby cloverleaf interchange for Colfax Avenue and Federal Boulevard divides the community and creates unsafe conditions for pedestrians and drivers.
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To avoid traffic jams, the avenues that connect each sector of the city were designed without intersections; instead, the intersections have cloverleaf interchanges.
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“Traffic circle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traffic%20circle. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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