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ring road

British

noun

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

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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

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

There's even a ring road named Xi Jinping Boulevard in honour of the Chinese president.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

A parade of tractors will drive around Rome's motorway ring road on Friday evening, but a large tractor rally in the central Piazza San Giovanni has been cancelled so as not to annoy the public.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2024

A second road block diverts us to the ring road.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

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