cloverleaf

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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

Next, Mr. Irwin wanted help producing the acrylic disks for which he would become known: evanescent convex shapes, mounted so they seemed to hover and lit from four sides to create a cloverleaf pattern.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

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

A tRNA molecule often is depicted as a cloverleaf, with an anticodon on one end, and the amino acid attachment site at the other.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 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