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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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A young man in his 20s died on the sidelines of celebrations on Saturday after crashing his motorcycle into concrete blocks placed on an exit ramp of the Paris ring road, according to local prosecutors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

A group of supporters had stormed the ring road, bringing traffic to a halt for a time and letting off flares, an AFP photographer said.

From Barron's May 31, 2026

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

Leeds did eventually get subterranean transport - in the form of the inner ring road motorway which dives under the city centre.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2025

But eventually they reached the ring road, and the hornbeam trees.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

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