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cloverleaf

[kloh-ver-leef] / ˈkloʊ vərˌlif /




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Earlier work from the team identified an important cloverleaf shaped structure within the virus's RNA.

From Science Daily May 13, 2026

Creatively designed roadways captured the public’s imagination, such as the first cloverleaf interchange, erected in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, in 1928, which allowed drivers to move between two highways without crossings or left turns.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2024

And then, as we approached a cloverleaf on-ramp to the highway, the car started to accelerate.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2023

The red bus lane toward downtown will reopen, saving time for transit riders, but it won’t be extended farther onto the northbound Highway 99 cloverleaf ramp as conceived in early 2020.

From Seattle Times Aug. 10, 2022

There’s also a mirror where you can do tongue exercises, to see if you can roll your tongue up at the sides or into a cloverleaf shape.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

We’re going fast around all the cloverleafs and overpasses.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2024

Routes 95, 29, 32 and 1 and local roads and cloverleafs are filled with trash, including rubber from tires, mattresses, car parts, bags of trash and debris.

From Washington Post Sep. 9, 2022

Mr. Aitken’s camera takes in vast stretches of barren terrain and highway cloverleafs.

From New York Times Apr. 26, 2018

The highways on Long Island were twisted into cloverleafs!

From The Guardian Sep. 4, 2010

Visitors marvel at American highways, cloverleafs and bridges, admire U.S. drivers for "staying in lane," and deplore ubiquitous billboards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Furth are called 'Kleeblatter', which means cloverleaves, but luck has not been on their side in just their second ever season in the Bundesliga.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2021




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