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- noun Plural form of
byway .
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Examples
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Matthew said ... sfmike: Exploring capitalist/imperialist byways is the main form of procrastination here at HQ!
Generalization of the day Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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As a writer who since my teenaged days has had one foot in the Spanish world, that is, Spain, whose art, architecture and writing, has always included multiple highways and byways -- an innate baroqueness -- I am used to this muchness.
Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware Barbara Probst Solomon 2011
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Jack Kerouac put it succinctly: "the road is life" -- which could explain the haphazard collection of oddball phenomena that flanks our highways and byways.
Trazzler.com: 10 Roadside Enigmas That Make it Hard to Keep Your Eyes on the Highway (PHOTOS) Trazzler.com 2010
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And at his best, as in the Rio dei Mendicanti ca. 1723, a brooding view of one of the city's least traveled byways, Canaletto even manages to make Venice disappear.
Canaletto's paintings showed more than the tourist side of Venice 2011
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Hyundai elected to stage the Southeast regional introduction in Charleston, S.C., and I spent most of a rainy morning driving down straight, oak-shrouded byways.
Hyundai, Your Accent Has a Pleasing Ring to It Dan Neil 2011
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"We don't pretend to understand the highways and byways of Congress," said Josh Basseches, the museum's deputy director.
Bill Kills Off Program on Whaling Industry Scott L. Greenberg 2011
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A few weeks after I saw Obama in Chicago, I came back to town, pushing a white rental through the byways of the South Side.
American Girl 2009
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As a writer who since my teenaged days has had one foot in the Spanish world, that is, Spain, whose art, architecture and writing, has always included multiple highways and byways -- an innate baroqueness -- I am used to this muchness.
Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware Barbara Probst Solomon 2011
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Conductor Ryan Brown and his fine early-music ensemble, Opera Lafayette, have made it their mission to explore seldom-trod byways of 18th-century opera.
Music review: Opera Lafayette's 'Le Magnifique' Joe Banno 2011
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With dusty byways transformed into muddy, impassable messes, a long-standing debate was suddenly revived: Is it finally time to utter what many consider a dirty word: pavement?
Where Dirt Is a Mark of Distinction Shelly Banjo 2011
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