asphalt
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That race will be remembered for Pogacar crashing, picking his bloody butt off the asphalt, and coming back to win.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Images shared by the local transportation authority showed chunks of asphalt, reminiscent of earthquake damage, washed over by large waves.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The researchers identified a large thermal gradient, with temperatures reaching approximately 350 degrees Celsius beside the magma intrusion and falling to about 72 degrees Celsius at an ancient seafloor asphalt spill roughly 300 meters higher.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
About 30,000 square feet of asphalt was removed, and 35 trees were planted at Esperanza Elementary School, increasing green space across the campus from 9% to 37%, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
That’s when Annabelle smells it—that wet asphalt, damp-earth smell.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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He also is developing what he says should be more-affordable pothole-resistant pavements, using non-petroleum "bio asphalts" derived from waste materials such as corn stalks and switch grass.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2010
Fillers.—Fillers are solid asphalts or tars that are used for filling expansion joints in rigid pavements and for filling the spaces between the blocks in brick, wood block and stone block pavements.
From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg
Oil asphalts are used for dust layers, for binders for macadam roads, for asphalt cements for sheet pavement surfaces, and for fillers for block pavements and expansion joints.
From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg
The wide asphalts reflected the horses and carriages and trains and pedestrians in forms grotesque, zigzagging, flitting, amusing, like a shadow-play upon a wrinkled, wind-blown curtain.
From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath
The asphalts, then, have a common history in this, that they are produced by the evaporation and oxidation of petroleum.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
"For some reason," a deputy writes, "Brunner believes the asphalted driveway … is now his property."
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2022
The next day, traffic flowed over the newly asphalted road, and life in the capital had returned to near normal.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
Starting with Chinatown, earthen basements were concreted, concrete ones flooded with carbolic acid, walls washed with lye, streets asphalted, cesspools filled and decrepit dwellings demolished.
From Nature ● Apr. 23, 2019
Together, Paris’s schoolyards comprise just 80 hectares, and they won’t go completely green: École Riblette is keeping one of its yards asphalted so students can play sport.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2018
From here he has almost a clear asphalted or macadamized road out of New York.
From Harper's Round Table, April 30, 1895 by Various
The BR-163 connects the agricultural powerhouse state of Mato Grosso to the Amazon ports Miritituba and Santarém, and in November the army finished asphalting its last unpaved section.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2020
At the Arena Amazonia, where England will play their opening game against Italy on Saturday, workers are still asphalting the ground outside the stadium, fitting doors and fixing power cables in the changing room.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2014
"We are happy and thankful to the foreigners for asphalting the 100km Ghorband-Kabul road," says Haji Ahmad, a truck driver from Shinwari.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2012
They were full of good intentions, but the citizens thought they ought to have something more lasting, so they voted to appropriate an enormous sum for asphalting.
From The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs
The road to the Church is sadly in need of macadamizing, Mr. Holland—or, better still, asphalting.
From Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore
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