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Recent Examples of cloverleaf
In America, horror is a cloverleaf: at once a bound reality and a recurring spectacle, shared and remixed online, appropriated and made a fool of by soulless pundits on Fox News.
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Jason Parham, WIRED, 28 May 2022
One of those projects is the Interstate 75 interchange at Fruitville Road in Bradenton, which will be transformed from a traditional cloverleaf configuration into a diverging diamond design.
—Steve Wilson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Sep. 2024
State of play: The department unveiled plans last year to remove one of the cloverleaf exchanges and add two flyover bridges, like the Urban Loop in Urbandale.
—Jason Clayworth, Axios, 30 July 2024
Barrel racing, in which a horse and rider run a cloverleaf pattern around barrels, returns to the fair after years at 6 p.m. on Monday.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
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Jason Parham, WIRED, 28 May 2022
One of those projects is the Interstate 75 interchange at Fruitville Road in Bradenton, which will be transformed from a traditional cloverleaf configuration into a diverging diamond design.
—Steve Wilson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Sep. 2024
State of play: The department unveiled plans last year to remove one of the cloverleaf exchanges and add two flyover bridges, like the Urban Loop in Urbandale.
—Jason Clayworth, Axios, 30 July 2024
Barrel racing, in which a horse and rider run a cloverleaf pattern around barrels, returns to the fair after years at 6 p.m. on Monday.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloverleaf
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Ryan has been pushing ever since for a full interchange at Pat Salerno Drive, arguing that the arena and nearby Sawgrass Mills mall need a ramp for commuters coming from the region’s northern borders.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025
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But smaller financial institutions such as credit unions that are part of that food chain and also small businesses say they would get hurt by a reduction in the interchange fee revenue alongside their larger bank competitors.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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To create the pathway, the project features a gently sloping overpass that is 165 feet wide and 200 feet long.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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Authorities are strongly urging residents to avoid all non-essential travel, as roads, bridges, and overpasses will be extremely slippery.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2025
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One study found that underpasses in Wyoming prevented so many perilous, expensive crashes that the state was on pace to recoup their costs in just five years.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Vox,
14 Mar. 2025
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The state has legislated myriad penalties against cities and counties that don’t find places for homeless people to sleep, including a command to incarcerate people caught sleeping on government property, which usually includes sidewalks and underpasses.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
Orlando Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2025
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The murder mystery exists at the intersection of Elsbeth and Shondaland’s other White House show, Scandal, combining political intrigue with parlor-room puzzlement—and that parlor happens to be located in the most famous house in America.—
Scarlett Harris,
Architectural Digest,
3 Apr. 2025
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Deputies discovered two women with gunshot wounds after 7 p.m. at the intersection of Caldwell Street and Central Avenue, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.—
Anthony Solorzano,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Cloverleaf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloverleaf. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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