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highway

[hahy-way] / ˈhaɪˌweɪ /


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Laundry dries outside of a home along the northern highway in Cuba.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

By Monday, the highway had reopened and the campus was calmer, but heavily policed.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Potential applications include concrete pavements, highway parapet walls, and sewer pipelines.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The middle section—called a bridge or release—opens onto pivotal chords, a harmonic highway that lifts the song to a brighter emotional plane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

We cross bridges standing on stilts over water inlets, red barns tucked deep within rolling meadows, a giant wood-carved bear standing at the edge of the highway.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Roberts said he was delighted that the initial highways work could now start on site thanks to the persistence and partnership of all involved.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

It drafted a plan that was informed by secret trips to border cities made by Canadian army generals, who would pose as tourists and snap photos of bridges and highways for intelligence.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

In taking the coastal areas around Bab el-Mandeb village, they reap the benefit of Emirati investment, manifested in kilometers of paved highways that stand in stark contrast to much of Yemen’s road network.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Their hotel was surrounded by a web of highways, so they walked along the busy roads, cars speeding by at 70-plus mph.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Terraces and canals and stony highways lined the western face of the Andes.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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