straightaway
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Battery recharging is often necessary by coasting on straightaways.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
You get a sense of his vertical straightaways and of the tasteful, nose-shaped bulges on a slate piece called “Gregory.”
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024
The 3.8-mile course features two long straightaways and relatively few high-speed corners to help those tires achieve or retain tackiness.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2023
Avoid straightaways, because they will shrink the space from a visual perspective.
From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2022
The flatcar sometimes crept, sometimes went extremely fast, often stopped—went uphill, downhill, around curves, along straightaways.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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