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traffic signal

NOUN
red light


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Officers responded to Broadway and Miller Street around 1:40 a.m. and found a vehicle had struck a traffic signal, the Santa Maria Police Department said in a news release.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

Mohammad Umar, 50, has been sitting inside his tuk-tuk near a busy traffic signal since morning, waiting for passengers.

From BBC May 28, 2026

Officials warned that power outages and traffic signal failures are also possible, and additional closures are likely.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

By 1930, Nelson wrote, all major American cities and many smaller ones had at least one electrical traffic signal.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2024

That might have been that if only, some days afterward, the thieves hadn’t ignored a traffic signal in the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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