paths

NOUN

course, way

Synonyms

STRONGEST

aisle avenue direction highway lane line passage pathway procedure rail road roadway route street track trail walkway

STRONG

artery beat boulevard byway crosscut drag footpath groove pass rut shortcut stroll terrace thoroughfare walk

WEAK

beaten path

Antonyms

STRONG

closing

WEAK

blockage

Example Sentences

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An analyst predicts a 2027 merger between Tesla and SpaceX, citing their converging paths and Elon Musk’s AI ecosystem goals.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Liliana’s 15-year-old daughter, Nicole, specializes in the Globe of Death, where she gets in the locked cage with her cousin Judith, also 15; together they maneuver the motorbikes around the globe at opposing-intersecting paths.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Yet Apple and NeXT had been on weirdly parallel paths.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

It was in this environment that they first crossed paths with Ed Sheeran, who joined them for an impromptu session in a County Wexford pub during last year's Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

In this baked, desolate, treeless landscape, scattered with small tin-roofed huts and dusty walking paths, we drove through a gate and onto smooth pavement.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French