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She describes a period of relentless civic construction—vast new roads and transit systems, and new congestion to go with them.

The result was a perfect storm of commuter congestion where “normal Caracas chaos became absolute mayhem.”

The state has argued that this law is necessary to prevent obstruction and congestion going into the abortion clinics.

London became a virtual ghost town after months of warnings about extreme congestion.

Couldn't high speed rail displace more polluting forms of transportation and relieve road congestion?

How small are the masses of pauperism which we bring together, compared with the congestion of one vast House.

He was threatened with congestion of the brain, and seemed somewhat aggrieved when I told him he had been trying to do too much.

So the modest household lived on, till my father was carried off by congestion of the lungs on the 4th of May 1823.

Wherever there has been much cerebral disturbance, traces of congestion are usually discernible.

It is all income without an outlet, and that, we know, always produces congestion and disease.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to congestion, such as: bottleneck, overpopulation, traffic jam, crowding, excess, and jam.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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