avenues

noun

plural of avenue
1
as in streets
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel a city famous for its broad, tree-lined avenues

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2
as in paths
an established course for traveling from one place to another the two main avenues available to those joining in the California gold rush were the trail across the Southwest desert or the hazard-filled loop around Central and South America

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Recent Examples of avenues And that looks like the amount Google will have to pay since there are no further avenues for appeal. — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026 Through public-private partnerships, NASA has joined in the effort to open new avenues for tourism and scientific research. — Adam Stone, USA Today, 3 July 2026 The report accuses the group of funding its programming through opaque and questionable avenues, including soliciting foreign funds, misleading donors and selling access to the president. — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 2 July 2026 The episode compounds concerns that the prediction sites create avenues for manipulation, either through insider information or other tactics, like engineering the outcomes being bet on. — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 2 July 2026 Those resources include avenues to help seniors maintain regular exercise, ongoing positive social connections, appropriate living situations, transportation and more. — Rachel Brown Kirkland, AJC.com, 2 July 2026 This action appears part of a broader trend indicating the IRS is narrowing administrative avenues for international taxpayers to resolve past noncompliance. — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 The victim, 37-year-old Jose Alfredo Aguilar Candela, died in the side yard of a residence near Travis and West Baltimore avenues on the evening of July 1, according to medical examiner’s records. — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2026 The commission resolution, approved June 26 with Commissioner Miguel Gabela absent, instructs City Attorney George Wysong to explore legal avenues to blunt Live Local’s impact on the city, including potentially suing the state. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for avenues
  1. streets
  2. paths
  3. thoroughfares
  4. routes
  5. roads
  6. approaches
  7. highways
  8. freeways
Noun
  • On Tuesday, more than a million fans took to the streets to celebrate Mexico’s advancement to the World Cup’s round of 16, a feat the national team hadn’t achieved since 1986, and with each victory, the human tide grows.
    — Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • Officers kept some witnesses at the scene for questioning and blocked off streets in the area.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 July 2026
Definition of streets
Noun
  • Some of those places have her crossing paths with new characters played by Wanda Sykes and Ice-T, among others.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • For finance professionals, the findings suggest that employers who invest in meaningful on-the-job development and clear growth paths can gain a competitive edge in attracting and keeping talent in an increasingly demanding and data-driven function.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 6 July 2026
Definition of paths
Noun
  • There was also a huge security perimeter, with major thoroughfares around MSG closed off to cars and pedestrians.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2026
  • The unearthed quarters included north-south thoroughfares intersected by east-west streets, forming open squares and public spaces, said Hisham el-Leithy, secretary general of the supreme council of antiquities.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Definition of thoroughfares
Noun
  • Tehran meanwhile has tried to strengthen its leverage by saying crew members must gain permission to traverse the strait along routes approved by its officials.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
  • In the Nutanix implementation, an agent talks to a unified endpoint that routes to the appropriate model.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of routes
Noun
  • Rodríguez denied those claims, saying some remote areas were difficult to reach because roads were blocked by landslides and debris, forcing authorities to rely on motorcycles, drones and satellite imagery.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • The roads can become extremely dangerous during this period because of fog, smoke, black ice and poor visibility.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of roads
Noun
  • The market sees diverse approaches from infrastructure, authorization, and security vendors, alongside consolidation through acquisitions and open-source initiatives.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.
    — STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 July 2026
Definition of approaches
Noun
  • Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026
  • As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the museum offers a patriotic lens into how the canals, highways, railroads and mines that stitched this country together were built by machines born in American factories.
    — Malika Bowling, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of highways
Noun
  • The state issued a strong warning urging residents to prepare for a large aftershock, and to stay off freeways if possible.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Another lithium-ion fire in 2024 forced authorities to close one of the major freeways leading out of the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach for a day.
    — Tom Wait, CBS News, 24 June 2026
Definition of freeways

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“Avenues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avenues. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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