parkway

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Recent Examples of parkway The Natural Resources Committee has pledged to use the fundraiser money toward bolstering the city’s parkway tree canopy. Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025 This year, though, most of the parkway is shut down indefinitely. Katie Peralta Soloff, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024 Other, more difficult, routes off the parkway include Shades of Beauty, Kerkeslin Falls, and Curtain Call. Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2025 On August 25, 1991, a set of remains bound at the ankles and covered with a board was found in a grassy area at the intersection of two Queens, New York parkways, according to a press release from District Attorney Melinda Katz's office. Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for parkway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parkway
Noun
  • Authorities closed that side of the interstate, and traffic soon was gridlocked in the immediate area and south to Interstate 8 and beyond as police tried to talk the man down to safety.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The crash, which involved multiple vehicles, prompted a temporary shutdown of the interstate as first responders arrived on scene.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These rental platforms build in sophisticated defenses to avoid detection and bypass filters and security nets, usually leveraging legitimate cloud services.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • But for the gun possession charges subject to the bypass program, prosecutors were approving those in around 90% of cases and generally handling them by phone, said Yvette Loizon, chief of policy at the state’s attorney’s office.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Outside the beltway, the biggest states have the heftiest number of federal workers: California (147,500 workers) and Texas (130,000 workers), according to Pew data.
    Nerdwallet, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This behavioral hijacking turns what should be a reproductive dead end into a superhighway for infection.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Here’s your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Riley was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving a death in the late-night crash on Interstate 75 in Tampa, highway patrol said in a news release.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In other words, a half-hour break every two hours at motorway speeds will make long journeys viable.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • To be built close to junction 10 of the M1 motorway for easy access by car, it was intended to have a removable grass pitch, which would have made Luton the first club to use such technology.
    Tom Burrows, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • During my test driving, which comprised about 45 miles, in a variety of modes and at a variety of speeds including close to 100mph on a German autobahn, the car achieved close to 3 miles per kWh.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The other side: Richmond, Virginia, is a veritable autobahn by comparison, with drivers making the same distance trip in under 10 minutes on average.
    Shawna Chen, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Nguyen Hue Street, a pedestrian boulevard stretching to the Saigon River, is the heart of the city, with a plethora of bars, restaurants, and buzzing nightclubs.
    Chris Dong, AFAR Media, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Lisa led the way, phone in hand, through several small streets and out onto a wide boulevard, crowded even as shops were closing.
    Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025

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“Parkway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parkway. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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