the open road

noun

: roads that are away from cities and towns
traveling on the open road

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Fortunately, the freedom of the open road doesn’t have to come at the planet’s expense. Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025 The true democracy where soul meets soul, in the open road. Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025 Yet the myth of the open road has always been about who’s in the driver’s seat. Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025 While cars from autonomy providers like Waymo are still extremely rare in most stretches of the open road, the process of loading and unloading cargo has become almost entirely automated at some major ports around the world. Tim Stevens, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for the open road

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