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Family, friends and spectators line the embankments, looking down from pedestrian bridges and the underpasses, holding up signs and cheering.
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George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
The primary entrance would be at the northern Highland Drive terminus south of Lake Drive, and a secondary entrance would be at the southern terminus near the I-43 underpass.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
The flooding also hit Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, where runways, taxiways and an underpass tunnel were flooded, the weather service said.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025
Fort Worth homicide detectives are investigating after a body was found beneath an underpass Thursday, officials with the Fort Worth Police Department said.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Aug. 2025
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George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
The primary entrance would be at the northern Highland Drive terminus south of Lake Drive, and a secondary entrance would be at the southern terminus near the I-43 underpass.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
The flooding also hit Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, where runways, taxiways and an underpass tunnel were flooded, the weather service said.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025
Fort Worth homicide detectives are investigating after a body was found beneath an underpass Thursday, officials with the Fort Worth Police Department said.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underpass
Noun
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Mayor Eric Adams held a press conference underneath an overpass on the 7 train in Queens, a line that is almost entirely elevated, until the East River.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
8 Nov. 2025
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Carnes, 46, was found hanging beneath an overpass with burns to his body, according to the HPD's statement.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
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The construction zone is in place for the ongoing work to widen I-264 and reconstruct the interchange with I-71, The Courier Journal previously reported.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Nov. 2025
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Work on the new interchange, which is anticipated to cost $55 million, has already created traffic headaches for drivers traveling east and west along State near Idaho 16 intersection.—
Rose Evans
November 4,
Idaho Statesman,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Underpass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underpass. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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