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  • noun Plural form of thruway.

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Examples

  • We are typically told that personal information is anonymously tracked for one reason — usually something abstract like making search results more accurate, recommending book titles or speeding traffic through the toll booths on the thruways.

    Your Mobile Carrier Will Sell You for Pennies 2009

  • Much of the cycling takes place on roads shared with cars, although the routes often feature bike lanes and avoid major thruways.

    Alpine Cycling Without (Much) Pain William Launder 2011

  • In reality we will have 5-15 years of working around the closures of these thruways before they are reopened.

    Priorities « PubliCola 2010

  • Gaps should be limited to official border crossings and small, heavily monitored thruways that allow the safe passage of migratory animals.

    The U.S. Needs Incomprehensive Immigration Reform 2010

  • The backroads were filled with dangerous curves which you never saw coming since the road builders liked to bank their thruways all the wrong way, just for fun and just for the poor suckers whose houses and backyards happened to be right on the graveyard curves.

    The Yellow Wonder 2009

  • Traffic packed the sixteen-lane thruways of the city on every level.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 6.2 of 31.1 2009

  • The backroads were filled with dangerous curves which you never saw coming since the road builders liked to bank their thruways all the wrong way, just for fun and just for the poor suckers whose houses and backyards happened to be right on the graveyard curves.

    The Yellow Wonder 2009

  • Behind the park to the east two major thruways and the eastern leg of rail lines cup the north east part of the plateau.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Behind the park to the east two major thruways and the eastern leg of rail lines cup the north east part of the plateau.

    parc baldwin Lemon Hound 2008

  • Since all events end at one of eight locations, you learn fairly quickly the main thruways of the game.

    Difficulty Done Right - Part 1 Sean Beanland 2008

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