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Recent Examples of ring road
Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena.
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James Horncastle, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
Guo and Cui have lived in Beijing all their lives and have barely travelled outside of the second ring road, a rectangular beltway built in the 1980s around central Beijing, with an area roughly equivalent to the size of the old city.
—Qiang Xiaoji, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2015
Judge Alexander Milne has also barred the three Just Stop Oil activists from taking part in any protest action within the M25, the major ring road in London.
—Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2024
The march was due to end in front of parliament, further along the capital's inner ring road.
—Reuters, 3 Oct. 2024
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James Horncastle, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
Guo and Cui have lived in Beijing all their lives and have barely travelled outside of the second ring road, a rectangular beltway built in the 1980s around central Beijing, with an area roughly equivalent to the size of the old city.
—Qiang Xiaoji, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2015
Judge Alexander Milne has also barred the three Just Stop Oil activists from taking part in any protest action within the M25, the major ring road in London.
—Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2024
The march was due to end in front of parliament, further along the capital's inner ring road.
—Reuters, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
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If the Heat bypass that guarantee, Robinson still gets $9.9 million to walk away.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
4 May 2025
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Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner line will also be disrupted by the construction work, but a bypass bus will run between Irvine and Oceanside, allowing for a complete trip.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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When officers attempted to pull the car over, Wright, who was accompanied by a passenger, exited the parkway at a high rate of speed, then got back on again and sped off, Chell said.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2025
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Image Images posted on social media showed a thick haze of smoke shrouding the parkway near the Waretown exit and flames rising just beyond a guardrail on one side of the highway.—
Ed Shanahan,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
23 May 2020
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The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
16 July 2018
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Over time, her responsibilities grew: in 2001, she was asked to oversee AMLO’s marquee project, a four-hundred-million-dollar renovation of Mexico City’s beltway.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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The event will benefit Boys and Girls Club of Bristol and the Main Street Community Foundations’ Men’s and Boys and Women and Girls funds.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2025
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That client was Erhardt, and the two were married just months later, according to Main Street Magazine.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
3 May 2025
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Firefighters in Massachusetts were called to put out a vehicle fire on an interstate managed to save two lives — including one who wasn’t even involved.—
TJ Macias,
Miami Herald,
25 Apr. 2025
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The eastbound interstate was closed between exit 114 for West Glenwood and exit 119 for No Name, according to CDOT.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
24 Apr. 2025
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This behavioral hijacking turns what should be a reproductive dead end into a superhighway for infection.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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From the quiet fields of rural India to the deserts of northern Mexico runs an international migration superhighway, funneling tens of thousands of Indians to the U.S. border each year.—
Matt Rivers,
ABC News,
12 Feb. 2025
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The roads are superb, especially the multi-lane A1 motorway between Vilnius and Kaunas.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The power delivery is incredible, and this is particularly surprising when accelerating from around 50mph on a motorway.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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