as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
a new driver who's nervous about driving on the freeway for the first time
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Recent Examples of freeway
In the video below, the Aptera solar EV really looks like something that dropped onto the freeway from beyond Earth's orbit.
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New Atlas, 31 Mar. 2025
The pedestrian was spotted on the freeway just north of X Street, according to a news release from the CHP South Sacramento Area Office.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Late night and early morning commuters can expect detours along the freeways linking Fort Worth to Weatherford this weekend.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2025
The slow-speed pursuit traveled on freeways in Oceanside, Carlsbad and then back toward Escondido.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
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New Atlas, 31 Mar. 2025
The pedestrian was spotted on the freeway just north of X Street, according to a news release from the CHP South Sacramento Area Office.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Late night and early morning commuters can expect detours along the freeways linking Fort Worth to Weatherford this weekend.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2025
The slow-speed pursuit traveled on freeways in Oceanside, Carlsbad and then back toward Escondido.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for freeway
Noun
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Here's what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
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Fewer vehicles on our roads also lessen the need for costly and harmful highway expansions, which consistently fail to reduce traffic.—
Jill Locantore,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2025
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The road that leads to the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit to Canada, is notoriously difficult to navigate, even for locals.—
Jasmine Garsd,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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The museum tracing the company’s history is just across the road from the coffee shop where Bastiaan Riemersma is sitting.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2025
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The highway has over twice the average crash rate of Missouri expressways.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
12 Apr. 2025
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Safer streets, stronger neighborhoods, and city services that actually serve.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant serves terrific pizza and even better cheesesteaks that draw long lines running down the street or, some days, up the street the other way, just to keep life interesting.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
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The northernmost stretches of the road, and other thoroughfares stitching together Fort Worth’s northern outskirts, have had to cope with intense population booms in recent years.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
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The investigation has streets blocked around the intersection of two main thoroughfares, Northwest 183rd Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue.—
David J. Neal,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2025
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American military veteran hijacks plane in Belize, officials say The airplane, which had only 14 passengers on board, had been due to fly the short route from Corozal near the Mexican border to San Pedro, a popular tourist destination off the coast.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Amanda McPherson, 38, and Johnathon McPherson, 27, were caught when detectives discovered seemingly unrelated cases of fraud shared the same postal routes, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in an April 17 news release.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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The nearly 12-mile stretch of I-4 in Orange and Osceola counties between State Road 528 and State Road 429 jumped to first place among the most clogged roadways in the nation in 2023 after ranking tenth the previous year, according to INRIX.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2025
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The strong currents from flash floods can pull drivers off roadways.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Inside Austin’s bitcoin clubhouse Bitcoin Commons sits on the second floor of the Littlefield Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street — where the broad boulevard to the Capitol collides with the noisy sprawl of Austin’s nightlife district.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
12 Apr. 2025
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At its best, that’s what the Champs Élysées tastes like—like walking the boulevard early summer, the sunlight cascading through the chestnut trees.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Freeway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freeway. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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