ring road

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of ring road 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 In July, Judge Hehir sentenced a group of Just Stop Oil activists to four- and five-year sentences over a campaign to disrupt traffic on the M25, the major ring road in London. Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 26 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for ring road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
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
  • The city also plans to construct a bridge over the Union Pacific railroad track that bisects the parkway’s future path.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The tree in her parkway was a direct hit to the house she’s lived in for 40 years.
    Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Environmental nonprofits and clean-energy groups voiced similar statements of outrage while beltway groups representing fossil fuels cheered Zeldin's announcements.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Little Rock, 1911: Main Street has seen many parades over the decades, but none larger or longer than that for the closing day of the United Confederate Veterans reunion.
    Ray Hanley, Arkansas Online, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The shop’s location on busy Main Street/Route 72 puts it near a several of other businesses, including a gas station, and in close proximity Route 25.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • That’s expected to translate to a 108% increase in traffic on the northern section between Overland and Victory roads, just south of the interstate.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 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
  • The interview started with a second apology from the man who was late due to a crash on the motorway.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Many southerners think the Watford Gap motorway service station — which is confusingly 60 miles north of Watford, a town just north west of London — is the true gateway to the frozen steppes beyond.
    Matt Slater, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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