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parkway

[pahrk-wey] / ˈpɑrkˌweɪ /


NOUN
expressway
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I counted preexisting security cameras as I went: three on a large gray tower on the west side of the parkway.

From Slate Dec. 29, 2025

They gather there every last Sunday of the month for Club Gay Gardens, a garden club catering to queer Angelenos, to maintain the parkway strip, learn about native gardening and connect with other plant lovers.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2025

At the parkway in late September, Smart-McCabe plunged her shovel into the dirt a third time.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2025

In exchange, the city’s parkway program provided free native plants suitable for Long Beach to replant the area and mulch to help retain rainwater.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2025

Finally the trees stopped and the field opened up, and I could see the parkway on our right and the moat straight ahead of us.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

An agreeable companion on the page, Mr. McCarthy prefers scenic parkways to multilane highways and amusingly relies on a Rand McNally road atlas instead of phone-enabled navigation.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

Many municipalities and utilities around L.A. offer free trees for residents to plant in their yards or they will add trees to parkways.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2024

While leading 100-plus Seattle urban walks over a five-year span, Hendrickson had routinely visited many of the parks, playgrounds, boulevards and parkways designed by or influenced by Olmsted that are featured on the route.

From Seattle Times Nov. 21, 2023

These include lakeshores, battlefields, memorials, parkways, and monuments, and visiting enables you to experience America while also keeping your nose out of a stranger’s armpit.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2023

It is no accident that the first highways in America were called parkways.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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