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Recent Examples of ring road
Projects include installing additional 50-amp outlets to the inner ring road, security lighting, and 50-amp outlets to the east parking lot and to the area west of the grandstand.
ATTORNEY: Approved a resolution to hire Thomas Borgen as assistant McLeod County attorney.
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Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
People were living in deep poverty right there in Oxford, on the ring road and in the outer suburbs, beyond the university.
—Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena.
—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
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Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
People were living in deep poverty right there in Oxford, on the ring road and in the outer suburbs, beyond the university.
—Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
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Although all the fashion buys might have captured your attention—don’t bypass the amazing activewear Prime Day deals.—
Kristina Rutkowski,
Vogue,
11 July 2025
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This enables them to: 1) bypass patents, 2) serve during shortages, and 3) personalize formulations.—
Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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The two-lane scenic parkway winds 469 miles over mountain ridges in Virginia and North Carolina.—
Mark Price
July 16,
Charlotte Observer,
16 July 2025
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The conservancy protects and advocates for a system of 17 parks and six parkways in Louisville designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, one of only a handful of complete systems in the country.—
Connor Giffin,
The Courier-Journal,
3 July 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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Participants in the Peoples Convoy of truckers protesting pandemic restrictions drive the beltway around Washington near Cabin John, Maryland, on March 6, 2022.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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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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Part of American pop culture, synonymous with the age of the automobile, the rise of consumerism and the death of small town Main Street, America’s malls have had a rough ride in the 21st century.—
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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After 70 years of family ownership, the popular Holiday Market on Main Street in Royal Oak was sold to new owners in December.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
15 July 2025
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In 2023, nearly 1,200 people died on freeways and interstates, which aren’t designed for pedestrians.—
Tanya Mohn,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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The interstate will reopen at 5 a.m. on July 21, with one lane to reopen along the corridor until 5 a.m. on July 23.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
11 July 2025
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Obama doesn't get nearly enough flack for the NATO bombing campaign in Libya, one of the most short-sighted and memory-holed American military actions in history that had the twofer effect of destroying that entire country while also opening up a superhighway of mass immigration into Europe.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 June 2025
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This 65-mile stretch of roadway not only slashes driving time from eight hours to less than three but the new superhighway also opens access to previously remote towns in the interior, like San Pablo Coatlán and Santa María Colotepec.—
Chris Dong,
AFAR Media,
13 Mar. 2025
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Regular guy Arthur Dent, while trying to prevent his house from getting demolished in favor of a new motorway, gets launched into space when aliens similarly blow up the planet in favor of progress.—
Brian Boone,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
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Officials from the Canton of Solothurn said the walker noticed the brick fragments and stones near the motorway bridge along the A1 motorway in Luterbach, according to a May 20 Facebook post.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2025
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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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