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highways

  • plural
    of highway.
    highway
    noun
    a main road, especially one between towns or cities.

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Those points might represent cities, PCs, subway stations, or organs, while the connections could stand for highways, cables, railway lines, or blood vessels.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

General Motors and Ford’s Super Cruise and BlueCruise allow for hands-off driving on certain highways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

This road trip continues a series exploring California’s overlooked scenic highways, inspired in part by artist Earl Thollander’s 1971“Back Roads of California,” whose sketches and travel notes celebrated a slower way of traveling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Thousands of people lined highways, toll plazas and city streets waving Venezuelan flags and chanting "Liberty!" as a beaming Machado entered the capital in a convoy of cars and motorbikes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

He doesn’t have any quiet little streets or parks; it’s highways and a grid, and no rivers either.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini