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ring road

British  

noun

  1. US names: belt.   beltway.  a main road that bypasses a town or town centre

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Vast energy-hungry warehouses around Dublin's ring road host thousands of servers handling massive amounts of cloud computing, storage and AI demands for data giants like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

Sutherland was driving his Ford Mondeo at a minimum of 44mph in a 40mph zone around the time of the incident on the Condorrat ring road.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

Other clashes between police and crowds occurred on the Paris ring road.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2025

The UCU branch chair also said the demolition would be a huge undertaking that would cause disruption due to its proximity to a junction on the ring road.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025

He came to a large traffic circle where the road going north crossed the Oxford ring road going east and west.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman