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turnpike

[turn-pahyk] / ˈtɜrnˌpaɪk /


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Absolutely not, Yale political science professor Steven Smith responded from the passenger seat as the two traveled on the Massachusetts Turnpike.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

Breezewood is the awkward handshake between Interstate 70 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which almost meet but never quite do.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025

A few years later, in June 2014, Morgan was involved in a five-vehicle crash with a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2025

It is believed he may have been abandoned near the Turnpike pub.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2024

They could follow it for a while, then they’d have to go on the Turnpike to get over the Thames River, to New London.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt




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