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freeway

[free-wey] / ˈfriˌweɪ /


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He reportedly had completed nearly 6,000 trips with a 4.96 rating and didn’t have previous incidents involving unsafe freeway stops or rider injury.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

Officers arrested a man Saturday morning suspected of starting several small grass fires around a freeway transition road in Sherman Oaks, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

But making the transfer would require running a four-minute mile and crossing a freeway.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

The 101 has long been a bottleneck nightmare as it approaches Santa Barbara and the yearslong project to widen the freeway has only made it worse.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

A whole bunch of police cars come onto the freeway, blue and red lights flashing, and they use that lane that’s just for emergencies to zoom by all the stopped cars.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

Repetitive imagery of freeways, streetcar tracks, even horses seem to torture the main characters for feeling stuck.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

The mountain lion managed to cross two busy freeways and lived in the park for nearly a decade.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

Potential compromises: Because there are no major freeways, traffic on surface streets is often quite congested.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

There were a few small banners on lamp posts along freeways and a few billboards but it felt like functional promotion rather than excitement.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

Linda didn’t like driving on freeways, not if she could help it.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway




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