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- adjective Opposing the construction of
highways .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Farrell asked for the lights to be dimmed so that he could show slides from an exemplary antihighway campaign in England.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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Farrell and the Earth First! gang were ahead of that curve and also keeping up a proud antihighway tradition: As previously mentioned, author Jane Jacobs herself was known to raise some hell.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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The Earth Firsters in Bloomington weren’t the only ones taking the antihighway rhetoric to new levels.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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His antihighway activism began after he discovered that his house was on one of the routes—3B, which cut near Bloomington but gave the town a wider berth than 3C, the route that crossed the Tokarskis’ property.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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Springer told the seventy-five or so in attendance that domestic and international terrorism were, together, the bureau’s number one priority, and he framed antihighway actions in very serious terms.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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