as in roads
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
the four-lane highway narrows to two lanes once you leave the city
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Recent Examples of highways
Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
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Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2025
Growing Doral is home to more than 80,000 residents and over 17,000 businesses, and close to highways and the airport.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025
Here’s your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
—Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2025
Improvements include the replacement of the viaduct’s bridge deck, drainage system, and installation of new barrier walls and highways lights, among other structural enhancements.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 24 Mar. 2025
The area is connected to multiple major highways, making for easy transportation, and its rugged, mountainous terrain has historically made law enforcement challenging and allowed criminal groups to flourish.
—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
There are 545 active capital projects planned for this year on state highways, bridges and roads.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 24 Mar. 2025
In order to reduce overtime, Higgins has commissioned a comprehensive overview to get troopers out of their offices and onto the highways.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2025
Though Johnson made liberal use of impoundment, holding up appropriations for everything from a national aquarium to federal highways, everything changed when Nixon attempted a similar ploy a few years later to check the power of a hostile House and Senate.
—Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Mar. 2025
Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2025
Growing Doral is home to more than 80,000 residents and over 17,000 businesses, and close to highways and the airport.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025
Here’s your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
—Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2025
Improvements include the replacement of the viaduct’s bridge deck, drainage system, and installation of new barrier walls and highways lights, among other structural enhancements.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 24 Mar. 2025
The area is connected to multiple major highways, making for easy transportation, and its rugged, mountainous terrain has historically made law enforcement challenging and allowed criminal groups to flourish.
—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
There are 545 active capital projects planned for this year on state highways, bridges and roads.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 24 Mar. 2025
In order to reduce overtime, Higgins has commissioned a comprehensive overview to get troopers out of their offices and onto the highways.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2025
Though Johnson made liberal use of impoundment, holding up appropriations for everything from a national aquarium to federal highways, everything changed when Nixon attempted a similar ploy a few years later to check the power of a hostile House and Senate.
—Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for highways
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On Monday, crews are continuing to work to clear the roads as temperatures sits near zero with negative wind chills.—
Noelle Alviz-Gransee,
Kansas City Star,
6 Jan. 2025
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Crews are working to clear snow and ice from roads after blizzard conditions Sunday brought 8-12 inches of snow in various parts of the metro, according to the National Weather Service in Kansas City.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
6 Jan. 2025
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Poppies and tulips will soon blossom, most noticeably along the banks of local freeways.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
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Stone and other residents say that a Caltrans program designed to improve neighborhoods around freeways, especially those with socio-economic challenges, has brought a ray of color and hope.—
Joe Rubin,
Sacramento Bee,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Officials do not block Canal, one of the city's most-trafficked thoroughfares.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Axios,
3 Jan. 2025
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In Overland Park, crews are in the process of spreading salt on residential streets as of Friday afternoon, and will move to salting main thoroughfares on Saturday before the rain starts.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
3 Jan. 2025
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Nearly 41% of fatalities on Michigan roadways in 2023 involved alcohol and/or drugs.—
Natalie Davies,
Detroit Free Press,
24 Dec. 2024
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During the advisory, slippery travel conditions are possible, especially on untreated roadways.—
Claire Reid,
Journal Sentinel,
23 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The organization said the vehicle was spotted at the intersection of Jefferson and Sepulveda boulevards in Culver City.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Dec. 2024
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The plane crashed on 126 Street, near the intersection of Hawthorne and El Segundo boulevards.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Nov. 2024
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Content is simply there, clogging up the arteries of streaming services and clickbait sites, offering up buffets of empty calories and almost instant amnesia.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2025
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The book reveals many such journeys, tracking the garbage of rich countries along hidden arteries toward some of the planet’s poorest places.—
Scott W. Stern,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Highways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highways. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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