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- noun US A broad
highway fit for high-speedtraffic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
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Examples
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The motel Zacatecas on the main North South throughway is quiet and inexpensive.
Hotel in Zacatecas 2005
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I had to pull off the road on the throughway, which is illegal, and stop my heart from palpitating, you know?
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I had to pull off the road on the throughway, which is illegal, and stop my heart from palpitating, you know?
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In one way the book felt like a throughway to connect the first book and the establishment of characters with the third book and the ultimate showdown.
Archive 2010-04-01 2010
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In one way the book felt like a throughway to connect the first book and the establishment of characters with the third book and the ultimate showdown.
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To get the best overall view we trek up a dirty river, then along a wide throughway with an endless line of white figures marching down one lane, and an equally daunting line of black figures marching up; bellies down, backs up.
Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers Richard Bangs 2011
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To get the best overall view we trek up a dirty river, then along a wide throughway with an endless line of white figures marching down one lane, and an equally daunting line of black figures marching up; bellies down, backs up.
Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers Richard Bangs 2011
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The gallery they gave Mike Arcega to continue this thought is more a throughway.
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All summer last year, my roommate and I played San Andreas largely to the exclusion of all else, for long hours in the dog days when, here in Spanish Harlem (the header image is a crummy shop of my neighborhood's main throughway), the neighborhood residents took life out into the streets.
Archive 2008-04-01 SVGL 2008
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Which was strange, if you thought about it, since it was a federal airport, operated by the Federal Aviation Administration, and reachable only by a federally constructed throughway.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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