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highway

[hahy-wey] / ˈhaɪˌweɪ /


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Authorities said Garcia was speeding down River Road, a two-lane highway that bends with the river, when the road turned.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

I won’t miss the stops for fast food and comfort breaks in windswept concourses of highway service plazas.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

On Monday, a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant named Pierre Damas Bel, who graduated from high school with honors in May, walked into traffic on I-70 in Springfield highway and was killed.

From Salon Sep. 3, 2026

The drive on the highway by the Mediterranean in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, is scenic and, these days, desolate.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

“I guess. But right now, I think this highway needs me more.”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

They are the internet's hidden highways - bundles of optical fibres on the ocean floor carrying data between continents as pulses of light.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Immigration officials have been setting up stings on interstate highways for months, sweeping up hundreds of migrants who allegedly are in the country illegally.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

“It’s clear from experience with Waymo that these autonomous vehicles can’t deal with unanticipated circumstances, so we are certainly cautioning about the dangers of 26,000 pounds barreling down the highways at 65 miles per hour.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Several highways were also closed, Nepali authorities said.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

There was work here in Detroit—cars, houses, factories, highways.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi




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