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Recent Examples of alleyway
One alleyway leads to little toy shops, another to electronics shops with the craziest things.
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Eric Wilson, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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A dog has been rescued in Missouri after he was found with severe injuries and tied to two dumpsters in an alleyway.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Ahead of another crash in the Garfield Park neighborhood, police pursued a driver who had committed a traffic offense at 30 mph in an alleyway, Mendenhall Casey said.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
Duty-free electronics, perfume, and designer clothing are sold here and in shops along alleyways connecting Main Street to the waterfront.
—Carol M. Bareuther, AFAR Media, 20 Feb. 2025
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Eric Wilson, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Can With Serious Injuries By Alice Gibbs Senior Life and Trends Reporter
Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member
news article
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A dog has been rescued in Missouri after he was found with severe injuries and tied to two dumpsters in an alleyway.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Ahead of another crash in the Garfield Park neighborhood, police pursued a driver who had committed a traffic offense at 30 mph in an alleyway, Mendenhall Casey said.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
Duty-free electronics, perfume, and designer clothing are sold here and in shops along alleyways connecting Main Street to the waterfront.
—Carol M. Bareuther, AFAR Media, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleyway
Noun
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Detectives, tactical officers and other police personnel clustered on the sidewalk in front of the hotel, while others walked the service alley in the back of the building.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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The videos collectively say that criminals, gang members and other predators want to slip in through every crack, and that Ms. Noem and the administration are here, there, everywhere — the border, back alleys, a Coney Island subway station — to stop them.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Others left in their cars, dodging bodies that lay in the streets.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant serves terrific pizza and even better cheesesteaks that draw long lines running down the street or, some days, up the street the other way, just to keep life interesting.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
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The northernmost stretches of the road, and other thoroughfares stitching together Fort Worth’s northern outskirts, have had to cope with intense population booms in recent years.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
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The investigation has streets blocked around the intersection of two main thoroughfares, Northwest 183rd Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue.—
David J. Neal,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Chubs had a long road to this seemingly happy ending.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Electric cars hit the roads and smart phones hit the stores.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
13 Apr. 2025
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The suite also enables features like partial highway self-driving, automatic lane changes, on-ramp and exit navigation, and high-speed emergency collision avoidance, similar to the E8 system.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The males that lived near busy roadways behaved more aggressively than those living farther away by approaching the speaker closely and repeatedly swooping low over it, probably in search of the intruder.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) first confirmed to PEOPLE that a Cessna 310 had crashed into a roadway on Friday, April 11, at around 10:20 a.m.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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At its best, that’s what the Champs Élysées tastes like—like walking the boulevard early summer, the sunlight cascading through the chestnut trees.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
12 Apr. 2025
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Inside Austin’s bitcoin clubhouse Bitcoin Commons sits on the second floor of the Littlefield Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street — where the broad boulevard to the Capitol collides with the noisy sprawl of Austin’s nightlife district.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Alleyway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleyway. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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