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unpaved

British  
/ ʌnˈpaɪvd /

adjective

  1. not covered in paving

"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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She lives in Squam, a Nantucket village reachable by an unpaved road, and helped to found the Nantucket Coastal Conservancy, in part to fight the geotubes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

In Kafr Abdallah Aziza, the pressures are clear: cracked irrigation canals cut jagged lines through unpaved roads, carrying only a trickle of water to parched fields.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

We like the way it handles rougher pavement and even unpaved surfaces.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025

The dust particles are made up of agricultural chemicals from miles of lettuce and spinach fields, manure from livestock operations, diesel exhaust, unpaved roads and fine debris from lithium mining.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025

King Hill, as the neighborhood was called, consisted of three unpaved streets lined with red shotgun shacks and frame houses like the Colvins’.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

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