freeway
Americannoun
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an express highway with no intersections, usually having traffic routed on and off by means of a cloverleaf.
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a toll-free highway.
noun
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another name for expressway
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a major road that can be used without paying a toll
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After an hour on a freeway passing through suburban towns of countless rows of identical worker housing, we turned onto a more rustic road, headed into the country’s mountainous region.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
The gates are supposed to allow California Highway Patrol to manually block access points to the freeway.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
While public rest stops along the freeway are convenient, some vets avoid them because the trucks can be scary for dogs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
The zany movie features a young environmental advocate who “hops” her consciousness into a robotic beaver and bands together with other woodland creatures to stop a planned freeway expansion through a glade.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026
I look around and notice that there isn’t just one campfire, but several, constellated across the span of the traffic-jammed freeway, in different clearings.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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